IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 737: Defining Subalternities, I: Work, Unfreedom, and Uncovering Experience
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Global Medieval Peasants Research Network |
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| Organiser: | Stuart Pracy, Department of History, University of Manchester |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Solveig Bollig, Institutionen för språkstudier, Umeå Universitet Robert Portass, School of History & Heritage, University of Lincoln |
| Paper 737-a | Reimagining Artist Workshops in Lombard Italy (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Art History - General, Law, Technology |
| Paper 737-b | Beyond Elite Craftsmen: Rural Smiths of the Carolingian World (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade, Hagiography |
| Paper 737-c | Labour and Social Ties in Early Medieval England (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Rural, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Embedded conceptions of subaltern populations circumscribe our ability to identify the experiences and agency of such people in the medieval world. These sessions explore the role of contemporaneous processes which (re)defined medieval social boundaries. In this first session, Rachel Danford considers whether we can access the lived experiences of medieval makers by reconstructing the materials present in the workshop that produced the Altar of Ratchis; Alexandre Beaudet uses archaeological and documentary evidence to uncover the lives of rural smiths in the Carolingian world; and Stuart Pracy explores the ways in which labour and social ties were conceptualised in early medieval England. |