IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 1310: The Medieval European Will, III: Testamentary Practice and the Definition of the Will
Wednesday 12 July 2006, 16.30-18.00
| 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: | Steven Epstein, Department of History, University of Kansas |
| Paper 1310-a | Wills on the Stones: The Epigraphic Inscriptions of Vienne and Toulouse (12th-13th Centuries) (Language: English) Index terms: Epigraphy, Social History |
| Paper 1310-b | Sexual Equality in Testamentary Practices?: Evidence for the Conflicting Influences of Customary Law and Roman Law in Late Medieval Montpellier (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law |
| Paper 1310-c | European Wills in Historical Perspective (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Modern Scholarship, 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. |