IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 737: Being Related: Comparative Approaches to Kinship, Marriage, and Status

Organiser:	Geoffrey Humble, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham / ERC Project 'Mobility, Empire & Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia', Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator/Chair:	Amy Devenney, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Paper 737-a	Marrying into Empire?: Merit, Kinship, and Hereditary Office in the History of the Yuan Dynasty (Language: English) Geoffrey Humble, School of History & Cultures, University of Birmingham / ERC Project 'Mobility, Empire & Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia', Hebrew University of Jerusalem Index terms: Military History, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 737-b	Becoming Related: The Effect of Remarriage on Families in English Society, c. 1450-1600 (Language: English) Maria Cannon, Department of Humanities, Northumbria University Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Social History
Abstract	Comparing kinship, marriage and status in contested social space across geographical and temporal boundaries, this session will seek common frameworks of decision-making and representation in this key area of social and political life. Geoffrey Humble analyzes the impact of blood and affinal ties in appointments to civil and military office in the early Mongol empire. Maria Cannon explores the balancing of status across step families and children in 15th and 16th century English society.