Medieval History
CALL FOR PAPERS, Kalamazoo 2010 - please don't hesitate to
circulate, and sorry
for cross-listing.
Session: Men, Marriage, and the Family in the Middle Ages
The literature on women in the domestic sphere, as wives, mothers, daughters,
and in work, has contributed significantly to our understanding of the Middle
Ages. Thanks to this body of research we have not only gained insight into
everyday lives, but now also have more nuanced views of for example
power, law,
religion, piety, and society.
More and more scholars have begun to ask, what could we learn if we
applied the
methods and questions we have so fruitfully used in studying women to
the study
of men? Questions about agency, identity, patriarchy and the everyday
experiences of men are relatively new, and they are yielding fascinating
studies of men as part of social groups and in familial roles, as well as
contributing to our understanding of the Middle Ages. Men were, of course,
members of the family, and of medieval society as well as of the patriarchal
systems of Church and secular rule. How did men qua men navigate the religious
and social institution of marriage and the roles, rights and responsibilities
the family placed on them as fathers, husbands, brothers sons, or even uncles?
For this session we invite scholars studying men within the myriad
frameworks of
marriage and family to come together to further explore the field and thus
contribute to the discussion, as well as increase all our knowledge of the
cultures and societies of the Middle Ages.
To submit an abstract or for more questions, please e-mail:
[email protected].
Organizers: Grace Philip (Grand Valley State University)
Marita von Weissenberg (Yale University)
- Call For Papers: Intimacy: Family, Fealty, And Friendship In The Middle Ages
The City University of New York-Graduate Center in New York is hosting the Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies on Friday, March 12, 2010. The theme for this year's conference is Intimacy: Family, Fealty, and Friendship in the Middle...
- Mystical Marriage In The Middle Ages: Divine Or Diabolical?
In the early Christian church, the image of the “Bride of Christ,†was first used to describe the soul’s connection to Jesus Christ. But eventually, the symbolic marriage of women to Christ became a way enforce submission to patriarchal...
- Loving Relations: Familial Love In The Early Medieval World
CALL FOR PAPERS 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo) May 10-13, 2012 Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World Familial love was a social and cultural foundation, described by some medieval authors as the...
- Call For Papers Medievalists @ Penn (m@p) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "mater(ia) Familias: Family Matters"
Call for Papers Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters" April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University From the nuclear to the royal to...
- Cfp
Call for papers: South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention November 9-11, 2007 Renaissance Hotel Downtown, Atlanta Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2007 Old English Session ?Responses to War? Tacitus, in The Agricola and Germania,...
Medieval History
Men, Marriage, and the Family in the Middle Ages
CALL FOR PAPERS, Kalamazoo 2010 - please don't hesitate to
circulate, and sorry
for cross-listing.
Session: Men, Marriage, and the Family in the Middle Ages
The literature on women in the domestic sphere, as wives, mothers, daughters,
and in work, has contributed significantly to our understanding of the Middle
Ages. Thanks to this body of research we have not only gained insight into
everyday lives, but now also have more nuanced views of for example
power, law,
religion, piety, and society.
More and more scholars have begun to ask, what could we learn if we
applied the
methods and questions we have so fruitfully used in studying women to
the study
of men? Questions about agency, identity, patriarchy and the everyday
experiences of men are relatively new, and they are yielding fascinating
studies of men as part of social groups and in familial roles, as well as
contributing to our understanding of the Middle Ages. Men were, of course,
members of the family, and of medieval society as well as of the patriarchal
systems of Church and secular rule. How did men qua men navigate the religious
and social institution of marriage and the roles, rights and responsibilities
the family placed on them as fathers, husbands, brothers sons, or even uncles?
For this session we invite scholars studying men within the myriad
frameworks of
marriage and family to come together to further explore the field and thus
contribute to the discussion, as well as increase all our knowledge of the
cultures and societies of the Middle Ages.
To submit an abstract or for more questions, please e-mail:
[email protected].
Organizers: Grace Philip (Grand Valley State University)
Marita von Weissenberg (Yale University)
- Call For Papers: Intimacy: Family, Fealty, And Friendship In The Middle Ages
The City University of New York-Graduate Center in New York is hosting the Annual Graduate Student Conference on Medieval Studies on Friday, March 12, 2010. The theme for this year's conference is Intimacy: Family, Fealty, and Friendship in the Middle...
- Mystical Marriage In The Middle Ages: Divine Or Diabolical?
In the early Christian church, the image of the “Bride of Christ,†was first used to describe the soul’s connection to Jesus Christ. But eventually, the symbolic marriage of women to Christ became a way enforce submission to patriarchal...
- Loving Relations: Familial Love In The Early Medieval World
CALL FOR PAPERS 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo) May 10-13, 2012 Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Early Medieval World Familial love was a social and cultural foundation, described by some medieval authors as the...
- Call For Papers Medievalists @ Penn (m@p) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "mater(ia) Familias: Family Matters"
Call for Papers Medievalists @ Penn (M@P) Third Annual Graduate Student Conference "Mater(ia) familias: Family Matters" April 1-2, 2011, University of Pennsylvania Keynote speaker: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University From the nuclear to the royal to...
- Cfp
Call for papers: South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Convention November 9-11, 2007 Renaissance Hotel Downtown, Atlanta Deadline for proposals: April 10, 2007 Old English Session ?Responses to War? Tacitus, in The Agricola and Germania,...