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 |
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Moderator/Chair: | Helle Vogt, Center for Retskulturelle Studier, Det Juridiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet |
Paper 1207-a | Finiunt conventi?: Status and Order in Early 11th-Century Poitou (Language: English) Index terms: Mentalities, Social History |
Paper 1207-b | Invisible Threads of Tradition: Kinship and Knowledge around 1500 (Language: English) Index terms: Genealogy and Prosopography, Social History |
Paper 1207-c | Did Prostitutes Give a Stained-Glass Window to Notre-Dame of Paris? (Language: English) 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. |