IMC 2006: Sessions
Session 208: Breaking Ranks: Male/Female Relations across Divisions of Social Status
Monday 10 July 2006, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Sharon Farmer, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Cordelia Beattie, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh |
| Paper 208-a | Male Elite Response to Prostitution: The Case of the Filles-Dieu of Paris in the 13th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Social History, Women’s Studies |
| Paper 208-b | Parisian Merchant Women and the Aristocratic/Royal Courts of Northern France and England in the 13th and Early 14th Centuries (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Politics and Diplomacy, Social History, Women’s Studies |
| Paper 208-c | The Noble and Worthy Lady Lijsbette and Her Merchant Friends: Legal, Economic, and Social Relations across Status and Gender Boundaries (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - Urban, Social History, Women’s Studies |
| Abstract | This session calls attention to a variety of ways in which medieval people formed social, institutional, and sexual relationships across divisions of both gender and social status. Paper A looks at a network of elite men - an archbishop, a king, and a prominent bourgeois - who founded and supported a religious house for reformed prostitutes. Paper B examines elite female textile and spice merchants, whose relations with aristocratic households were more than simply commercial. Paper C focuses on a Flemish noblewoman who married a member of a powerful Italian banking family that had settled in Flanders, and whose independent financial activities involved a vast network of relations with male merchants. |