IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 541: Environments of Change: Nature and the Human Experience in Late Medieval Sussex

Tuesday 4 July 2023, 09.00-10.30

Organiser:	Claire Kennan, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Moderator/Chair:	Erin Kurian, Department of History, University of Waterloo, Ontario
Paper 541-a	Experiencing Climate Change on a Local Level: Environmental Management on Two 14th-Century English Manors (Language: English) Andrew Moore, Department of History, University of Waterloo, Ontario Index terms: Daily Life, Geography and Settlement Studies, Local History, Social History
Paper 541-b	Chronicling Climate Change: Contemporary Understandings of Late Medieval Natural Disaster (Language: English) Claire Kennan, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London Index terms: Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety, Local History
Paper 541-c	Foundations for Linked Data in Historical Building Information Models and Immersive Historical Environments (Language: English) Zack Macdonald, Archives & Special Collections, Western University, London, Ontario Index terms: Manuscripts and Palaeography, Science, Technology
Abstract	This session explores the historical relationship between humans, nature, and culture in late medieval Sussex from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The papers seek to understand the reciprocal relationship between humans and nature in the medieval past and, in doing so, apply these frameworks to present situations and contexts. In particular, the papers will explore the creation of digital tools which will allow individuals to understand the complex and dynamic relationship between societies and the natural world which will have application in educational, academic, policy and tourist settings.