IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 213: Negotiating Age and Status in Medieval Europe
Monday 11 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | Kathleen Cushing, Department of History, Keele University |
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Moderator/Chair: | Philip J. Morgan, Department of History, Keele University |
Paper 213-a | The 'Gregorian' Reformers and the iuvenes (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Religious Life, Social History |
Paper 213-b | Negotiations and Love Talk: Contracting Marriage and Marrying with the Help of Contracts in the 14th-Century York Cause Papers (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Law, Social History |
Paper 213-c | Medieval Adulthood: The Prime of Life or Mid-Life Crisis? (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Demography, Social History |
Abstract | Addressing the special thematic strand of the Congress, the session explores the issues of status and age and how these were understood rhetorically and in practice by focusing the the eleventh-century reform movement and the iuvenes, contracting and negotiaing marriage in fourteenth-century York, and what it meant to be an adult in medieval Europe. |