IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1722: The Angevins, II: Kinship, Privacy, and Pilgrimage
Thursday 12 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Department of History & Welsh History, Cardiff University |
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| Organisers: | Colette Marie Bowie, Independent Scholar, Glasgow Paul Webster, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stephen Church, School of History, University of East Anglia |
| Paper 1722-a | Making Time for the Person: The Relationship between Family and the Itineraries of the 13th-Century English Kings (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Lay Piety, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 1722-b | Through the Eyes of the King: Sensing the Royal Pilgrimage Experience of the Medieval Church (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Paper 1722-c | Visual Identities of 13th-Century Bishops of England (Language: English) |
| Abstract | Kinship, piety, and display were of central importance in the 13th-century Angevin network of power, and are explored in this session. Melissa Julian-Jones discusses the developing practice amongst 13th century bishops of displaying their arms on their official seals, suggesting how political turmoil and the need to consolidate their position in curial and administrative families helps explain this development. Julie Kanter explores Angevin private life, showing how family relationships – including the complex interaction of adult royal siblings and cousins – influenced the royal itinerary in the13th century. Emma Wells looks at the Angevins at prayer, using material evidence to reveal the royal experience of pilgrimage and saints’ shrines. |