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IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1207: Sessions in Honour of Stephen D. White, I: Medieval Society and Social Networks

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 14.15-15.45

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
Moderator/Chair:Helle Vogt, Center for Retskulturelle Studier, Det Juridiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
Paper 1207-aFiniunt conventi?: Status and Order in Early 11th-Century Poitou
(Language: English)
Orsolya Varró, Department of Medieval & Early Modern History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Index terms: Mentalities, Social History
Paper 1207-bInvisible Threads of Tradition: Kinship and Knowledge around 1500
(Language: English)
Gadi Algazi, Department of History Tel Aviv University
Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Social History
Paper 1207-cDid Prostitutes Give a Stained-Glass Window to Notre-Dame of Paris?
(Language: English)
Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Department of Art History, Emory University, Atlanta
Index terms: Art History - General, Historiography - Medieval, Lay Piety, Religious Life
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. Pastan assesses the 'truthiness' of the tale of prostitutes donating a stained-glass window for the cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris.