The Provincial Aristocratic Household in Late Medieval England

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

B. S. W. Barootes

Organizer Affiliation

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Presider Name

K. S. Whetter

Presider Affiliation

Acadia Univ.

Paper Title 1

Women's Work and Knightly Narrative in Emaré

Presenter 1 Name

James T. Stewart

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of North Georgia

Paper Title 2

Some Known Men: The Affinity of Sir William Beauchamp, Lord Bergavenny (ca. 1343-1411)

Presenter 2 Name

B. S. W. Barootes

Start Date

12-5-2019 10:30 AM

Session Location

Valley 3 Stinson 306

Description

This interdisciplinary panel explores the rich world of the provincial household in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although often mocked in the cosmopolitan capital, provincial courts were sites of important social, cultural, and historical innovation and advancement: Yorkshire and the North witnessed early interest in eremitic and vernacular piety; the West Midlands and the Marches fostered the alliterative revival; and in rural Gloucestershire, Lord Berkeley’s Cornish clerk John Trevisa translated one of the great scientific texts of the age. Far from the dark and draughty halls imagined by urbane detractors, the provincial household was frequently a shining example of the wealth, learning, and worldliness found in the furthest reaches of the kingdom. This session invites papers from scholars concerned with any aspect of a particular noble household outside the metropolitan centres. Benjamin Barootes