IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1624: Crossing Urban Legal Boundaries in Northern Europe, III: The Town and Beyond in Scotland
Thursday 8 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Edda Frankot, Research Institute of Irish & Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Miriam Tveit, Fakultetet for Samfunnsvitenskap, Nord universitet |
| Respondent: | Edda Frankot, Research Institute of Irish & Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen |
| Paper 1624-a | Scottish Towns and Their Hinterlands: A Symbiotic Relationship (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Learning (The Classical Inheritance) |
| Paper 1624-b | Urban Boundaries in the Late Medieval Anglo-Scottish Marches: Carlisle and Berwick-upon-Tweed (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Urban, Law |
| Abstract | The distinction between town and countryside was in some ways quite sharply drawn - for example with regard to law. But in other ways the distinction was much more blurred. This session aims to illuminate the complex physical, ideological and metaphorical boundaries between a town and its surroundings, and between groups within towns. Ditchburn examines especially the regulation of the economic relationship between Scottish towns and their hinterlands, which extended overseas too. Armstrong explores boundaries between people in towns in the Anglo-Scottish marches. Frankot will provide a response and draw the three 'Crossing Urban Legal Boundaries in Northern Europe' sessions together. |