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IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1724: Loyalty as Entanglements, III: What Can Objects Tell Us about Loyalty?

Thursday 6 July 2023, 14.15-15.45

Sponsor:Haskins Society / Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies
Organiser:Chris Lewis, Institute of Historical Research, University of London / Department of History, King's College London
Moderator/Chair:Hannah Boston, Trinity College, University of Oxford
Paper 1724-aCoinage and Regional Loyalties in Stephen's Reign
(Language: English)
Arrun Thuraisingham, Department of History, University of East Anglia
Index terms: Mentalities, Numismatics, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 1724-bCoinage as an Expression of Loyalty in the French Lands of Henry Plantagenet
(Language: English)
Eleanor Stinson, School of Humanities, University of East Anglia
Index terms: Mentalities, Numismatics, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Paper 1724-cDisentangling Medieval Loyalty through Tents and Campsites
(Language: English)
Hayley de la Motte, School of History, University of East Anglia
Index terms: Anthropology, Mentalities, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History
Abstract

Three linked sessions and a round table explore the somewhat neglected topic of loyalty in the Middle Ages. They follow from sessions in 2020 and 2021. The wider project aims to expand the ways of understanding medieval loyalty beyond the loyalties of men and lords or subjects and kings. These sessions for 2023 focus on loyalty as a form of entanglement. Session III is about how human entanglements with objects can be revealing of loyalties. Two of the papers are about coins, and how their design, circulation, and use reflects systems and links of loyalty. The third considers how loyalties were manifested when campsites were pitched or tents shared.