IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1730: Trust across Borders, II
Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Organisers: | Annabel Hancock, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York Siyao Jiang, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Siyao Jiang, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Respondent: | Catherine Holmes, Faculty of History, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1730-a | The Limits of Collaboration: Inter-Communal Commercial Agreements in Mozarabic Toledo (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Urban, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Social History |
| Paper 1730-b | 'Yeve credens to her': Credit and Credibility in The Book of Margery Kempe (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Trade, Language and Literature - Middle English, Lay Piety, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | The second of two sessions exploring historical trust, this panel looks at trust in local contexts. The first paper examines inter-communal trust in Mozarabic Toledo, seeking to investigate the ways in which trust was established across communal boundaries and what happened when that trust broke down. The second paper explores how Margery Kempe used credit practices to reinforce her spiritual credibility and generate trust between her, her supporters, and her readers, in order to cultivate her own penitential credit network that stretched across regions and even nations. As a third paper in this session, we will have a response from the moderator to open the discussion. |