IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1019: Disentangling the Archive, I: Single Document Discoveries
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | The National Archives, Kew |
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| Organiser: | Euan Roger, The National Archives, Kew |
| Moderator/Chair: | Andrew Prescott, School of Critical Studies (English Language), University of Glasgow |
| Paper 1019-a | Geoffrey Chaucer, Cecily Chaumpaigne, and the Statute of Labourers (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Law |
| Paper 1019-b | Romantic Administrators: Thomas Altherton, Exchequer Scribe and Owner of the Romance of Sir Parthenope of Blois (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources |
| Paper 1019-c | Rewriting Memory in 15th-Century Durham: Margaret Horsley and the Miscellaneous Charters (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Local History |
| Abstract | How have single document discoveries changed the way historians think about their research subjects, whether biographical or thematic? How can these discoveries help us to understand the archive more clearly and disentangle the complexity of how collections were created and used in the past? Can these discoveries bring us closer to understanding how individuals and groups experienced medieval networks and bureaucracies, and therefore increase our modern awareness of related collections? This session will allow presenters to discuss examples from their own research, where new discoveries have changed their perceptions and altered the landscape of particular subjects. |