Download PDF | Jackson W. Armstrong, Peter Crooks, Andrea Ruddick - Using Concepts in Medieval History_ Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1100–1500-Palgrave Macmillan (2022).
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Preface
This book sprang from a series of conversations, first sparked in the summer of 2014 immediately following the Harlaxton Medieval Symposium which considered the ‘The Plantagenet Empire’ (and which later resulted in the publication of that same name edited by Peter Crooks, David Green and the late Mark Ormrod). An exchange of post-conference reflections that summer and autumn between Peter Crooks and Jackson Armstrong identified a shared curiosity about how historians in our field, and more generally, select, critique and put concepts to use in their work. That exchange led to a joint interest in facilitating an organised discussion which would invite late-medieval historians of Britain and Ireland to reflect on and explore the raw conceptual work that is so often an implicit, rather than explicit, part of their craft. In May 2015, the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen funded a first scoping discussion led by Jackson and Peter into the shape of the topic to be explored, and how this might be most fruitfully achieved.
That meeting involved the valuable input of Michael P. Brown, Amy Hayes, Jeff Oliver, Ana Jorge, Andrew Simpson and Patience Schell, whose expertise drew from the fields of History, Archaeology, Law and Literature. In May 2016, funding from the Trinity Long Room Hub Research Incentive Scheme, at Trinity College Dublin, enabled Peter and Jackson to convene a workshop of historians entitled ‘Tyrannous Constructs’ or ‘Tools of the Trade’? The Use and Abuse of Concepts in Medieval History, whose participants included Andrea Ruddick, Ronan Mulhaire, Lynn Kilgallon, Chris Fletcher, Sophie Page, Sparky Booker, Ali Cathcart and David Ditchburn. The meeting was given a certain gravitas, and its naming was duly justified, in being joined by Peggy Brown who offered concluding reflections on the discussion, and who contributed a paper on ‘Feudalism and Periodisation’. Following the Dublin meeting, which established a group of interested discussants, Andrea Ruddick joined Peter and Jackson in an organising capacity, and plans for a further meeting and potential publication began in earnest. In September 2017, a follow-up workshop on ‘Tyrannous Constructs’ met at Exeter College, Oxford, funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant led by Andrea. The participants included Andrea, Peter and Jackson; and Ali Cathcart, Chris Fletcher and Sophie Page joined again, with the addition of Ian Forrest, Eliza Hartich and Carl Watkins.
John Watts offered a summative round-up of the discussions, posing a number of helpful questions about the aims of a possible publication. We are grateful to all the various participants in this sequence of enriching conversations, to those who are now included here as essay contributors and to the editorial team at Palgrave and the anonymous reviewers of the proposal and the complete volume. We also wish to thank Áine Foley for her efforts in harmonising the footnotes. The editors would also like to acknowledge each other for their shared support, encouragement and commitment to this project over a number of years. Aberdeen, UK Dublin, Ireland London, UK Jackson W. Armstrong Peter Crooks Andrea Ruddick
Notes on Contributors
Jackson W. Armstrong is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and local society in the fifteenth-century Scottish marches (Cambridge, 2020) and the co-editor of Cultures of Law in Urban Northern Europe Scotland and its Neighbours c.1350–c.1650 (Routledge, 2021). Elizabeth A. R. Brown is Professor Emerita of History at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the author of ‘Feudalism: The Tyranny of a Construct’ (American Historical Review, lxix [1974]) as well as numerous seminal works on the Capetian dynasty. Peter Crooks is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. He is the editor of (with Timothy H. Parsons), Empires and Bureaucracy in World History: From Late Antiquity to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press); (with David Green and W. Mark Ormrod) The Plantagenet Empire (Tyas).
Christopher Fletcher is Chargé de recherche (Assistant Research Professor) at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France, affiliated with the University of Lille. He specializes in late medieval political culture and the history of masculinity. He has published Richard II: Manhood, youth and politics, 1377–99 (2008), Government and Political Life in England and France, c. 1300–c. 1500 with Jean-Philippe Genet and John Watts (2015), The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe with Sean Brady, Rachel E. Moss and Lucy Riall (2018) and most recently Everyday Political Objects: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day (2021). Eliza Hartrich is Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. Her work explores political, economic, social and cultural relationships between townspeople in late medieval England, Ireland, Wales and France.
Her first book, Politics and the Urban Sector in Fifteenth-Century England, 1413–1471, was published by Oxford University Press (2019). Sophie Page is Professor of late Medieval History at University College London. She is the author of Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe (Pennsylvania State Press). Andrea Ruddick is a History teacher at St Paul’s School, London. She previously worked as a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. She is the author of English Identity and Political Culture in the Fourteenth Century (Cambridge University Press).
Carl Watkins is Reader in Central Medieval History and Fellow of Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of History and the Supernatural in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press) and King Stephen (Penguin). John Watts is Professor of Medieval History and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Henry VI: The Politics of Kingship and The Making of Polities: Europe, 1300–1500 (Cambridge University Press).
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