IMC 2008: Sessions

Session 1010: Domestic Social Relations in Late Medieval England

Organiser:	Erik Spindler, Oriel College, University of Oxford
Moderator/Chair:	Wendy R. Childs, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds
Paper 1010-a	Masters and Apprentices in Late Medieval London (Language: English) Erik Spindler, Oriel College, University of Oxford Index terms: Daily Life, Social History
Paper 1010-b	Parents and Children in 15th-Century English Hagiography (Language: English) Elizabeth Russell, Oriel College, University of Oxford Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin, Sermons and Preaching, Social History
Abstract	The session approaches one distinct topic - how people in late medieval England related to those they lived with and how they thought about these relations - from three different angles, using three different sets of sources. Paper-a uses court records to analyse social relations in London's apprenticeship system, focusing on the experience of becoming Londoner. Paper-b draws on hagiography to assess family relations, investigating how parent-child stories were used by contemporaries and what they tell historians about medieval childhood.