IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 604: Environment and Society in Rouen during the High and Late Middle Ages
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis), Université de Rouen |
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| Organiser: | Chantal Camenisch, Historisches Institut, Universität Bern |
| Moderator/Chair: | Chantal Camenisch, Historisches Institut, Universität Bern |
| Paper 604-a | Coping with Extreme Weather Conditions: Strategies of the City Government of Rouen during the Late Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Local History, Social History |
| Paper 604-b | Religious Communities in the Face of Natural Disasters: Responses and Adaptation, 10th-15th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Religious Life |
| Paper 604-c | The Little Schools in Rouen at the End of the 15th and the First Half of the 16th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Local History, Social History, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Abstract | Rouen on the river Seine was a large, wealthy and mighty city during the Middle Ages. Regarded as capital of Normandy, Rouen was a centre of trade and the seed of an archbishop. The city's changing history includes sieges, revolts and economic prosperity as well as crises. This session focusses on some aspects of the environmental and social history of Rouen by examining city authorities, religious communities and schools. Extreme weather conditions repeatedly caused damages to infrastructure or led to death. For this reason, the city council had to cope with such hazards. Within the city walls, Rouen hosted more than 30 parishes and numerous religious communities, which had to adapt to natural disasters. Moreover, an elaborated system of schools allowed even poor children to enjoy education in Rouen. |