IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 828: Social Conflicts, Kinship Structures, and Local Communities in Early Medieval Italy in the 8th-11th Centuries, II: Family Ties between Theory and Practice
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | PRIN: Conflitti sociali, strutture parentali e comunità locali nell’Italia altomedievale (VIII-XI secolo) |
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Organiser: | Maddalena Betti, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell'Antichità (DiSSGeA), Università degli Studi di Padova |
Moderator/Chair: | Maria Cristina La Rocca, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell’Antichità, Università degli Studi di Padova |
Paper 828-a | Marriage in Context: An Attempt of Overall Reading of De institutione laicali by Jonas of Orléans (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Lay Piety, Sexuality |
Paper 828-b | Pro causa Deusdedit: A Marriage on Trial in Late-Carolingian Ravenna (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy |
Paper 828-c | Remembering and Forgetting Kinship in Christian Burial Places (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Gender Studies |
Abstract | Moral treatises of the Carolingian period established models for Christian marriage, and in so doing reflected the Church's attempts to exercise control over family structures and to regulate elite marriage strategies. This session will investigate the effects of these new measures on several political and social contexts in early medieval Italy. First, Veronese will present a new perspective on Jonas's De institutione laicali, focusing on the author's views on marriage. Betti will then analyse the case of a controversial, incestuous marriage in late-Carolingian Ravenna. Finally, Barbiera will investigate changes to strategies of commemoration as expressed by kinship-groups under the influence of the Church in Italy, through an analysis of both written and archaeological sources. |