IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 508: Restoring Relationships to View, I: Prosopography and Medieval Aristocratic Women
Tuesday 8 July 2014, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Medieval Prosopography |
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Organiser: | Amy Livingstone, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio |
Moderator/Chair: | Amy Livingstone, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio |
Paper 508-a | Mothers and Daughters in Medieval Picardy: Inherited Power through Inherited Practice (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Genealogy and Prosopography, Women's Studies |
Paper 508-b | Charting Queenship and Community in 13th-Century Portugal (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Genealogy and Prosopography, Monasticism, Women's Studies |
Paper 508-c | Family History Writ Large: Creating a Prosopographical Study from One Very Extended Family (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Abstract | For historians investigating the lives of medieval women, prosopography can be particularly useful in teasing-out relationships that provided aristocratic women access to power. The papers in this session will examine how prosopographical analysis can highlight women's connection to the English political community, control of property through inheritance from mother to daughter in northern France, and relationships between Portuguese queens and religious houses. While geographically diverse, these papers all focus on a single century: the 13th. This session will also foster dialogue among historians engaged with different modes of prosopographical research, as well as among scholars in different stages of their academic career. |