Cluster and clash? everyday space and the butchers of late medieval Winchester, 1360-1420

Deering, Carly Cluster and clash? everyday space and the butchers of late medieval Winchester, 1360-1420. Doctor of Philosophy thesis, University of Liverpool.

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Abstract

This project focuses on the everyday relationship between people and the urban environment in the later middle ages. How do the spaces people create and inhabit on a daily basis shape their experience of the urban environment? How does the townscape influence the ways in which they operate? Focussing on the town of Winchester, c. 1360-1420, and the case study of the Winchester butchers, this project seeks to explore how this trade group interacted with the urban fabric. By the late medieval period, despite the contraction of the town the Winchester butchers were economically stable and operating in a key area of the marketplace. Various aspects of modern historiography describe butchers as marginalised, operating at the town limits and excluded from society. This project seeks to test this hypothesis on the Winchester case study. Using an innovative technological approach, this project explores how the use of 3D CAD modeling technology may help address these issues. By creating a 3D model of Winchester c.1417, it plots the butchers’ movements and activities in order to explore the key questions more thoroughly. In doing so, it is possible to see not only how the Winchester butchers interact with the rest of society, but also how they constantly negotiate and respond to their surrounding landscape. The use of such an approach assists in demonstrating that the apparent marginalisation of the Winchester butchers’ was complex. More broadly, this project reveals how such technological tools may help to explore the medieval urban fabric more deeply.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy)
Additional Information:	Date: 2014-01 (completed)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	medieval, medieval England, Medieval trade, urban medieval, medieval culture, digital humanities, medieval crafts, urban culture, medieval urban space, medieval butchers, medieval townscape, medieval space, everyday space
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2014 09:13
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2022 01:36
DOI:	10.17638/00016853
Supervisors:	Resl, Brigitte
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/16853