IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 246: Raised from the Dust: Social Mobility in 12th- and 13th-Century Europe
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Haskins Society |
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| Organiser: | Isaac Boothroyd, Department of History, University of Manchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Richard M. Goddard, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
| Paper 246-a | Attitudes to Education and Social Mobility in 13th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Social History |
| Paper 246-b | Master David of London and Social Mobility (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Genealogy and Prosopography |
| Paper 246-c | Behind Every Successful Man Is a Woman: The Role of Women in Social Mobility in 12th-Century England (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Genealogy and Prosopography |
| Abstract | Social mobility formed one such way people crossed the unwritten boundaries of 12th and 13th century European society, made possible by developments in law, administration, knighthood, the Church, trade, and increasing urban autonomy. In this session we shall examine this phenomenon and the processes behind it, with papers focusing in particular on the experiences of individuals at the centre of these events. We shall examine their lives and careers, their families, wider networks, and the reasons behind their increased prosperity, in an attempt to place their experiences within the wider context of changes that led to increased social mobility for many within this period. |