IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 515: Re-Thinking the Aristocracy in Capetian France, I: Aristocratic Identities
Tuesday 3 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Society for the Study of French History (SSFH) |
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| Organisers: | Charlotte Crouch, Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Reading Niall Ó Súilleabháin, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin |
| Moderator/Chair: | Constance Bouchard, Department of History, University of Akron, Ohio |
| Paper 515-a | Identifying the Aristocracy in the Middle Loire Valley, c. 1000- c. 1150 (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Social History |
| Paper 515-b | Aristocratic Childlessness in 12th- and 13th-Century France (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Genealogy and Prosopography, Women's Studies |
| Paper 515-c | A Crisis of Identity: Who Were the Nobles of 13th-Century Languedoc? (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Abstract | The aristocracy are central to the history of the French kingdom in the period 987-1328. This series of panels seeks to bring together scholars across the period to question historiographical traditions, and develop a more nuanced history of the aristocracy of Capetian France. The first panel will question the place and status of the aristocracy within Capetian France and how different aristocratic identities were constructed and expressed. Niall Ó Súilleabháin will investigate how aristocratic status was displayed through the language of charters in the early Capetian period; Charlotte Pickard will examine how aristocratic women's identities and positions within their families and kin-groups were affected by the experience of childlessness; and Rachael Hardstaff will detail how memory and nostalgia combined in Languedoc to contribute to a uniquely southern aristocratic identity. |