IMC 2003: Sessions

Session 804: Gender, Family and Power in 11th- and Early 12th-Century Anglo-Norman Sources

Sponsor:	Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Liverpool
Organiser:	Pauline Stafford, School of History, University of Liverpool / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	Marios Costambeys, Department of History, University of Liverpool
Paper 804-a	Edith, Matilda and the Queen's Demesne in Late Anglo-Saxon Wessex Revisited (Language: English) Ryan Lavelle, Department of History, University of Winchester Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English
Paper 804-b	Paternal Authority and Filial Ambitions in the Anglo-Norman Elite as Presented in the Chronicles (Language: English) Nic Percivall, Independent Scholar, Bristol Index terms: Gender Studies
Paper 804-c	Gender and Visions in 12th-Century Miracle Narratives (Language: English) Simon Stuart Yarrow, School of History, University of Liverpool Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography
Abstract	These three papers consider power relations within families and between the religious and secular life in the Anglo-Norman world. They pay particular attention to the insight which gender can bring to these questions, and examine links between socially determined gender and power roles.