Belonging in the Later Medieval English City

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York

Organizer Name

Sarah R. Rees Jones

Organizer Affiliation

Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of York

Presider Name

Mark Arvanigian

Presider Affiliation

California State Univ.-Fresno

Paper Title 1

"The Power to Admit Whom They Will": Belonging in a Late Medieval Fraternity

Presenter 1 Name

Rachael Harkes

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Durham Univ.

Paper Title 2

Migration, Gender, and Economic Opportunity in England during the Later Middle Ages

Presenter 2 Name

Bart Lambert

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Vrije Univ. Brussel

Paper Title 3

Resident Aliens in Fifteenth-Century London: Belonging and the Strategies of Inclusion

Presenter 3 Name

Joshua Ravenhill

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of York

Start Date

10-5-2019 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1225

Description

Building on the work of the England's Immigrants project (www.englandsimmigrants.com) the three papers in this session explore new questions about how migrants settled in cities and were either included or excluded in communities. They will in part draw on modern sociology that has conceptualised ‘belonging’ as a socially constructed experience determined by an individual’s inclusion and exclusion from formal and informal groups, for which they have to meet certain criteria in order to belong. Sarah Rees Jones