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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
Organiser:Amy Livingstone, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio
Moderator/Chair:Amy Livingstone, Department of History, Wittenberg University, Ohio
Paper 508-aMothers and Daughters in Medieval Picardy: Inherited Power through Inherited Practice
(Language: English)
Heather Gaile Wacha, Department of History, University of Iowa
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Genealogy and Prosopography, Women's Studies
Paper 508-bCharting Queenship and Community in 13th-Century Portugal
(Language: English)
Miriam Shadis, Department of History, Ohio University
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Genealogy and Prosopography, Monasticism, Women's Studies
Paper 508-cFamily History Writ Large: Creating a Prosopographical Study from One Very Extended Family
(Language: English)
Linda E. Mitchell, Department of History, University of Missouri, Kansas City
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.