IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 622: Pleasures and Pains of Family Life in Late Medieval Hagiography
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Hagiography Society |
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| Organiser: | Marita von Weissenberg, Department of History, Yale University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, University of Tampere |
| Paper 622-a | From Domestic Suffering to Heavenly Joy: Cures of Disability as Cures of the Family in Later Medieval Miracles (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Hagiography, Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 622-b | Siblings in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 61: 'So glad of odour ichon their ware' (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Middle English, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 622-c | Husbands, Wives, and Parents: When Sanctity Causes Conflict in the Family (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Hagiography, Social History |
| Abstract | Hagiographic sources have proved to be a goldmine for understanding medieval religious practices and beliefs. While presenting saints' lives, miracles or the official procedure leading to canonisation, hagiographic texts also unveil several aspects of the social settings and everyday lives of the laity. Family life is a central part of these narratives, be it in the depictions of an individual saint’s home, the familial relationships unveiled in miracle accounts and canonization processes, or the framing of the family in manuscript collections. The papers in this session will look at family life as depicted in a selection of these texts, concentrating on marriage, sibling relationships, and parenthood. |