TY - JOUR
T1 - Networking the March
T2 - A History of Hereford and its Region from the Eleventh through Thirteenth Centuries
AU - Lampitt, Matthew Siôn
N1 - Published after receiving a commendation in the 2016 Mortimer History Society Essay Prize competition.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article formulates a new, alternative history of Hereford and its Marcher region from the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. Arguing against the traditional dismissal of the Herefordian region as peripheral and provincial, this article charts the various networks of its individuals and communities that connect the area to locations from Ireland to the Holy Land. Such networks include those instantiated by trade routes, feudal holdings, familial relations, military orders, the Jewish community, the Crusades, and the Norman diaspora, as well as scholarly, ecclesiastical, and architectural connections. Taking the network as a historiographical model in this way, this article contributes to current work in historical scholarship, which is increasingly thinking about the medieval world in terms of networks, rather than of the traditional, hierarchical core-periphery. As such, this networked history recasts both Hereford and its region as a vibrant, multilingual, and cosmopolitan centre of military, ecclesiastical, literary, academic, and economic activity.
AB - This article formulates a new, alternative history of Hereford and its Marcher region from the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. Arguing against the traditional dismissal of the Herefordian region as peripheral and provincial, this article charts the various networks of its individuals and communities that connect the area to locations from Ireland to the Holy Land. Such networks include those instantiated by trade routes, feudal holdings, familial relations, military orders, the Jewish community, the Crusades, and the Norman diaspora, as well as scholarly, ecclesiastical, and architectural connections. Taking the network as a historiographical model in this way, this article contributes to current work in historical scholarship, which is increasingly thinking about the medieval world in terms of networks, rather than of the traditional, hierarchical core-periphery. As such, this networked history recasts both Hereford and its region as a vibrant, multilingual, and cosmopolitan centre of military, ecclesiastical, literary, academic, and economic activity.
KW - Hereford
KW - Medieval History
KW - Wales
KW - Welsh Marches
KW - Networks
M3 - Article
SN - 2397-9267
VL - 1
SP - 55
EP - 72
JO - The Mortimer History Society Journal
JF - The Mortimer History Society Journal
ER -