IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1234: Forging Family Identities
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity College Dublin |
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| Organiser: | Caoimhe Whelan, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sparky Booker, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy & Politics, Queen's University Belfast |
| Paper 1234-a | Families of Physicians in Later Medieval Wales (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Celtic, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine |
| Paper 1234-b | The Marches as Family Business in 13th-Century Ireland (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Historiography - Medieval, Local History, Military History |
| Abstract | These papers discuss various aspects of memorialising, maintaining and manipulating family identity. Exploring the topic from three different angles and at various epochs, the session will illuminate an important aspect of dynastic social memory. The first speaker will explore how medical knowledge was transmitted and accessed by practitioners of late medieval Wales, with an examination of medical manuscripts known to have been owned and passed down through families of healers. The second speaker will examine connections between family, political identity, and marriage, in particular, Isolde Bisset, an Anglo-Norman marriage-broker and fosterer. The final speaker will extend the focus to the 13th-century marchland, interrogating the memories and motivations which lay behind family retention of problematic landholdings. |