IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1001: Sessions in Honor of Stephen D. White, I: Medieval Society and Social Networks
Wednesday 8 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Richard E. Barton, Department of History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Tracey L. Billado, Department of History, Queens College, City University of New York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Helle Vogt, Center for Retskulturelle Studier, Det Juridiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet |
| Paper 1001-a | Finiunt conventi?: Status and Order in Early 11th-Century Poitou (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Social History |
| Paper 1001-b | Invisible Threads of Tradition: Kinship and Knowledge around 1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Social History |
| Paper 1001-c | The Fellowship of Master Surgeons: The Development of a Medical Craft Identity in Late Medieval London, 1300-1550 (Language: English) Index terms: Medicine, Social History |
| Abstract | This session is first in a strand intended to honor Stephen D. White's contributions to medieval studies on the occasion of his 75th birthday and is inspired by White's seminal work on kinship and social networks. Varro uses several 11th-century Poitevin sources to identify four widespread models of society discernible in those sources. Algazi demonstrates that close attention to the kinship networks of late medieval scholars in south German towns reveals 'invisible traditions' that wives and sisters in such families carried. Byrne investigates the social factors that made it possible for elite surgeons to break away from the more numerous Barber-Surgeons Guild of late medieval London. |