IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 116: Kinship and Violence in Early Medieval Europe
Monday 5 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Alex Traves, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
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Moderator/Chair: | Charles West, Department of History, University of Sheffield |
Paper 116-a | Murdering Relatives in Early Medieval England: Social Attitudes and the Structure of Kinship (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Social History |
Paper 116-b | Violent Women and Kinship in Gregory of Tours: A Network Approach (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Social History |
Paper 116-c | Family Matters: Punishing Royalty in the Early Medieval West (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | Kinship and violence were closely entwined in the late antique and early medieval worlds. These three papers will re-interrogate this important relationship using a variety of methods and approaches, particularly focusing on the issues of internal family violence and gender. The speakers will explore social attitudes towards the murder of relatives in early medieval England and how this affects our understanding of the structure of kinship groups; network analysis will be used to analyse Merovingian women who lacked a stable male kinship network and how this affected their propensity for violence; and how kings punished their royal relatives in the post-Roman West and the ways these punishments differed according to gender will also be explored. |