IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1116: Boundaries of Governance, II: The Limits of Power in Colonial Ireland
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Ali Al-Khafaji, Department of History, University of Bristol Rhiannon Cox, Department of History, University of Bristol |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Paul R. Dryburgh, The National Archives, Kew |
| Paper 1116-a | Contesting Royal and Aristocratic Power in a Time of Reform and Conquest: St Laurence O'Toole, Archbishop of Dublin (d. 1180), in England and Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Monasticism |
| Paper 1116-b | The Boundaries of Colonial Governance: King and Aristocracy in 13th-Century Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Military History, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1116-c | The Audit of Alexander Bicknor in the Reign of Edward II: The Malpractice of the Treasurer of Ireland and Its Aftermath (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | Medieval royal and aristocratic rulers occupied a position in which they simultaneously enforced boundaries for and exercised power over the wider populace but were also subject to limits on their authority. These limitations might have been explicit, as in the legal and financial systems which established guidelines for rulers, or implicit, as in the social expectations and political networks that they were required to navigate. Geographic, legal, social, and political boundaries of governance may have developed slowly over centuries, or been consolidated by development and reform over a shorter period of time, or overhauled in times of crisis. |