IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1131: Town Courts and Urban Society in Late Medieval England
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | University of Nottingham |
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| Organiser: | Richard M. Goddard, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Moderator/Chair: | Christopher King, School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester |
| Paper 1131-a | Counting Heads: Leet Court Records as Indicators of Population Changes in a Late Medieval Town (Language: English) Index terms: Demography, Social History |
| Paper 1131-b | Price Setting and Market Manipulation in 15th and Early 16th-Century Coventry (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban |
| Paper 1131-c | Holding All the Courts: Obtaining Justice under Monastic Lords (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Monasticism, Social History |
| Abstract | Following publication of Richard Goddard and Teresa Phipps (eds), Town Courts and Urban Society in Late Medieval England (Woodbridge, 2019), this session brings together researchers who work on various aspects of later medieval urban society. The papers are linked by the contributors' examination of the documentation produced by towns - especially court rolls - and seeks to pose questions about what these documents tell us about urban society and about power relations in these towns. This includes papers on urban populations, on how towns sought to administer local commerce, and on relations between urban lords and their tenants. |