IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1110: The Medieval European Will, I: Family Concerns in Medieval Wills
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 11.15-12.45
| Organisers: | Roisin Cossar, Department of History, University of Manitoba Patricia E. Skinner, Centre for Antiquity & the Middle Ages, University of Southampton Shona Kelly Wray, Department of History, University of Missouri, Kansas City |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Patricia E. Skinner, Centre for Antiquity & the Middle Ages, University of Southampton |
| Paper 1110-a | Wills and Burials: The Pastons Stand Divided (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Social History |
| Paper 1110-b | Family History in Wills: Three Stories from Zadar (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Social History |
| Paper 1110-c | The Wishes of Will-Makers: The Nature of Testators and their Influence in Late Medieval London (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Social History |
| Abstract | These three sessions will seek to locate last wills within a broad regional and chronological context, highlighting the methodological issues in the use of testamentary evidence for medieval history. Issues to be addressed in the sessions include a working definition of 'will' as a type of document; the varying legal and religious conditions in which wills were made; the nature of testators; the use, value, and mobility of objects documented in testamentary bequests; and testamentary bequests vs other sources for inheritance. Comparing the use of wills as historical evidence across modern national and regional boundaries we aim to establish a set of common research questions which could be used to enable future collaborative research. |