IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 353: Monastic Lancashire: Finance, Administration, and Politics

Sponsor:	Monastic Lancashire Research Ggroup
Organiser:	Nicky Tsougarakis, Department of English, History & Creative Writing, Edge Hill University
Moderator/Chair:	Janet Burton, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Paper 353-a	Whalley Abbey's Accounting Records (Language: English) Alisdair Dobie, Business School, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Index terms: Economics - General, Monasticism
Paper 353-b	Furness Abbey: Administration, Management, and Accounting (Language: English) Ken Farnhill, Business School, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Index terms: Economics - General, Monasticism
Paper 353-c	Regenerating Popular Consciousness of Local History: Integrating the Dissolution of Whalley Abbey into the Secondary School History Curriculum - A Preliminary Case Study (Language: English) Steve Illingworth, Department of Secondary & Further Education, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Index terms: Local History, Monasticism
Abstract	The proposed session presents some of the research undertaken by members of the newly founded Monastic Lancashire Research Group, which aims to research the monastic houses of Lancashire, while promoting collaborations between scholars working in this field. The four papers listed below will examine aspects of the patronage and the financial administration and management of two Lancashire Abbeys (Furness and Whalley), based on their surviving compoti, bursars' accounts, and taxation records.