IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 810: Products of Their Environment, IV: Constructing Narratives and Memory
Tuesday 6 July 2021, 16.30-18.00
| Organisers: | Dan Booker, Department of History, University of Bristol Edward Woodhouse, School of History, University of East Anglia |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ulla Kypta, Historisches Seminar, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 810-a | Curse These Scribal Hands: The Exchequer, the Barons' War of 1215-1217, and Institutional Continuity (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Political Thought |
| Paper 810-b | Hii sunt libri: Two 13th-Century Monastic Scribes and Their Communities (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Mentalities, Monasticism |
| Paper 810-c | Record-Keeping within the University of Paris: A Cartulary of the Norman Nation, 1200-1387 (Language: English) Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, 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. |