IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 808: Borders and Boundaries in and around the Medieval Tower of London
Tuesday 7 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Historic Royal Palaces |
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| Organiser: | Laura Tompkins, The National Archives, Kew |
| Moderator/Chair: | Laura Tompkins, The National Archives, Kew |
| Paper 808-a | A Palace in a Fortress: Re-Presenting the Medieval Palace at the Tower (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Secular, Art History - Decorative Arts, Social History, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 808-b | Reigate Stone Economies: Physical Borders and Boundaries in Medieval London (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Secular, Economics - General, Social History |
| Paper 808-c | The Mailed Fist Uncovered: Understanding the Tower Armoury in Late Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade, Military History |
| Abstract | This panel will explore three aspects of borders and boundaries in and around the Tower of London site. The first paper will address the boundaries faced in interpreting the medieval Tower as a royal palace to a modern audience fixated on its role as a 'gloomy fortress'. The second turns to the physical borders and architecture of the buildings and their preservation. Finally, the third paper will look at the role of the Tower as a working armoury, and ask whether addressing this through the lens of the privy wardrobe accounts creates anachronistic artificial boundaries? |