IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1010: Lords and Merchants: The Entangled Networks of Trade and Power
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Sally Finn-Kelcey, Medieval History Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Moderator/Chair: | David Ditchburn, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Paper 1010-a | The Politics of Economy: Disentangling Marshal Power in the Irish Sea Zone (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1010-b | Networks of Survival: the Mortimer Affinity and the Crisis of 1397 (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1010-c | Avoiding Entanglements:15th-Century Irish Wool Merchants and the Wool Staple (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade |
| Abstract | Political, social, and economic networks shaped and influenced the lives of our late medieval forebears. This session considers how they both manipulated and became entangled by these networks. John Marshall analyses the political and economic nexus of power of the 13th-century Marshal lordship which spanned Ireland, Britain, and France. Patrick McDonagh examines the fallout of the political crisis of 1397 and its impact on Roger Mortimer's affinity across the Mortimer lordship in Britain and Ireland. Lastly, Sally Finn-Kelcey studies how 15th-century Irish merchants exploited the ambiguous nature of Ireland's legal position with regard to the wool staple to benefit their trade. |