IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 108: Contested Control: Bureaucracy and Power at the Margins in Late Medieval Europe
Monday 5 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Beyond 2022 Project, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Organisers: | Elizabeth Biggs, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Lynn Kilgallon, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | David Green, Centre for British Studies, Harlaxton College, University of Evansville |
| Paper 108-a | Being Part of a Union: Sardinia and Sicily within the 15th-Century Crown of Aragon (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 108-b | Authority and Artifice: The Politics of Account in Late Medieval Ireland and Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 108-c | Power and Accounting on the Edge of English Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | This session examines central power at the margins in late medieval Europe, using case studies drawn from financial and administrative records to explore the relationship between government centre and periphery. How did both individuals and central administrations exercise power in areas subject to alternative or competing sources of authority? What common - or unique - strategies could medieval bureaucrats and administrators employ to exercise control in such regions? These questions are explored comparatively through papers on governance and lordship in Ireland and Britain, as well as contrasting approaches to governance in Sicily and Sardinia within the Aragonese union. |