IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 110: Interpreting the Political Climate, I: Researching with Judicial Records, c. 14th-16th Centuries
Monday 5 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Laura Flannigan, Faculty of History University of Cambridge Jack Newman, Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS), University of Kent |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Kathleen Neal, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Monash University, Victoria |
| Paper 110-a | 'Ad quod damnum': Inquisitions, Information, and Public Nuisance (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
| Paper 110-b | 'A golden age of lawlessness': Crime in the Court Rolls of 14th-Century Yorkshire (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
| Paper 110-c | Political Climate and Constitution in the Records of 16th-Century Royal Justice (Language: English) Index terms: Law, Social History |
| Abstract | Examining the political contexts of the late medieval and early modern period often involves delving into the records surviving from its legal and administrative systems. These documents are rich sources for the lives of the governed and their governors, the development of local and central government, and the political climates therein sustained. But these are vast archives, each with its own internal rules and shortcomings - making it difficult to apply certain frameworks of analysis and to work comparatively across them. This session will create a space to discuss traditional and innovative approaches to judicial records. |