IMC 2026: Sessions
Session 308: Plantagenet Borders, II: Life in the 'Margins'
Monday 6 July 2026, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | Fourteenth Century England / Boydell & Brewer |
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| Organiser: | David Green, Centre for British Studies, Harlaxton College, University of Evansville |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 308-a | The Scottish Marches under Edward II: The Economic Effect of War, Raids, and Climate Change (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Rural, Military History |
| Paper 308-b | Women on the Borders of the 14th-Century Plantagenet World (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History |
| Paper 308-c | The Impact of the Glyn Dŵr Rebellion on Commercial Activity in Chester (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Social History |
| Abstract | This session explores various socio-economic questions associated with life on three different 'Plantagenet borders' in the later Middle Ages. Papers will explore circumstances in Chester (on the hinterlands of Wales), along the frontier with Scotland, and in the cultural edgelands that separated,albeit uncertainly, Gaelic and Anglo-Ireland. The impact of warfare and raiding on community life will be considered alongside some of the legal measures taken to separate communities that appeared, from the perspective of the Plantagenet 'centre', to be politically different and, hence, suspect. |