IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1241: Medieval Towns and Cities, I: Places to Live (and Die)

Sponsor:	Institute for Medieval Research, University of Nottingham
Organiser:	Pam Powell, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Moderator/Chair:	Richard M. Goddard, Department of History, University of Nottingham
Paper 1241-a	Murder in Memoranda: The Tragedy of Thomas Arden in Faversham's Wardmote Book (Language: English) Esther Liberman Cuenca, Department of History, Fordham University, New York Index terms: Administration, Law, Social History
Paper 1241-b	Newcomers as Neighbours: Interacting with Immigrants in a Late Medieval Town (Language: English) Susan Maddock, School of History University of East Anglia Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Urban, Social History
Paper 1241-c	Trading Networks: Evidence from the Customs Records of the Port of Chester, 1404-1405 (Language: English) Pam Powell, Department of History, University of Nottingham Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade, Social History
Abstract	This panel will look at lived experiences in a medieval town: the experiences of immigrants in Lynn, especially their relationships with their competitors in trade and the borough's mercantile elite; the longstanding impact of the murder of a Faversham mayor, Thomas Arden, initially documented in the town's custumal but later both creating a legal precedent and inspiring a play; and the relationships, both commercial and social, between merchants using the port of Chester, based on evidence from surviving customs and related records.