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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 710: Products of Their Environment, III: Crises and Continuities

Tuesday 6 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

Organisers:Dan Booker, Department of History, University of Bristol
Edward Woodhouse, School of History, University of East Anglia
Moderator/Chair:Paul R. Dryburgh, The National Archives, Kew
Paper 710-aIndividual Habits?: Deviations from Instructions for Ruling in 13th-Century Historiography
(Language: English)
Christina Bröker, Lehrstuhl für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Universität Regensburg
Index terms: Administration, Mentalities, Political Thought
Paper 710-bCorpses in the Church, Hot Oil in the Bell-Tower: How a Parish and a Monastery Faced off in Late Medieval Normandy
(Language: English)
Abigail Sargent, Department of History, Princeton University
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, 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.