IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 510: Products of Their Environment, I: Administrative Mentalities
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Dan Booker, Department of History, University of Bristol |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sophie Ambler, Independent Scholar, London |
| Paper 510-a | 'Citra mare et ultra mare': The English Channel as an Administrative Division for King John's Chancery (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Paper 510-b | Women and the Community of the Realm: Evidence from the Chancery in the Early 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Gender Studies, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Paper 510-c | Challenging Bureaucracy: The Fango Notary in 14th-Century Bologna (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Abstract | Medieval organisations, whether secular or religious, administrative or scholastic, national or local, were comprised of individuals and communities engaged in reciprocal exchange with their institutional environments. These environments might be created by formal rules and regulations which governed the day-to-day lives of individuals and the communities in which they lived or worked; they might also be shaped by informal traditions and customs, which had developed over time to inform how individuals thought and behaved. Institutional environments may have been created slowly or incrementally over long periods; they might also be overhauled rapidly by reformers and significant events. This strand of sessions will provide new and exciting perspectives of the ways in which medieval institutions and institutional environments shaped, or were shaped by, the individuals and communities by which they were comprised, as well the documents or material objects that were produced or maintained within these environments. Organisers: Daniel Booker & Ed Woodhouse |