IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 722: Medieval Kinship Reconsidered, I
Tuesday 15 July 2003, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | The Medieval Circle, Department of History, Købnhavns Universitet |
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| Organiser: | Mia Münster-Swendsen, Department of History, Københavns Universitet |
| Moderator/Chair: | Michael H. Gelting, Centre for Scandinavian Studies King's College University of Aberdeen 24 High Street OLD ABERDEEN AB24 3EB |
| Paper 722-a | Medieval Kinship: Ideology and Practice (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 722-b | Personal Names, Progeny and Power: The Politics of Naming among the Early Medieval Celts (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Onomastics, Social History |
| Paper 722-c | Constructing Kinship in Norwegian 'Customary' Law (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Law |
| Abstract | This session, the first of two on the subject, aims to reassess the role and functions that have traditionally been assigned to European kinship in the early and high Middle Ages. There can be no doubt that kinship played an important part in medieval power structures; but recent research makes it desirable to reconsider both the paramount importance that has been attributed to this factor in early medieval societies, and the widespread assumption that the Church and kings strove to weaken and dissolve kinship solidarities in order to strengthen their own power. |