Received from Dr. Becca Grose and Dr. Alex Traves (University of York)
Conference Taking Place: 1–2 June 2023, University of York, King’s Manor
Thursday 1st June 2023
Registration 12.30-1pm
Session 1 – 1pm-2.40pm
“Dissolving the Paternity of Children Born to Slave Mothers in the Early Middle Ages.” Erin Dailey, University of Leicester.
“Wet-nurses in early medieval narratives: bonds of affection, ties of servitude.” Katherine Cross, York St John/University of York.
“Kinship Ties and Enslavement in Early Medieval England: Continuity or Dissolvement?.” Alex Traves, University of York.
Break – 2.40-3.10 pm
Session 2 – 3.10 pm-4.40pm
“The power in (not) dissolving kinship in fifth-century North Africa.” Becca Grose, University of York.
“Cutting Ties: Death, inheritance, and paternal abdication in Islamicate geographical accounts of the Rūs.” Tonicha Upham, Aarhus University. VIRTUAL.
“Denying Kinship; Claiming Land: Kinship, Property, and Power in Early Medieval India, ca. 300–800 CE.” Mekhola Gomes, Amherst College. VIRTUAL.
Break- 4.40pm-5pm
Plenary – 5pm
“”If anyone wishes to cast off their kindred, let them go to the assembly…” Kinship, community, and identity in the post-imperial West.’” Guy Halsall, University of York.
Reception – 6-6:45pm
Dinner – TBC
Friday 2nd June 2023
Session 1 – 9am-10:40am
“Eternal kinship of the spotless kind: familial metaphors of monastic transition.” Rachel Stone, University of Bedfordshire/King’s College London.
“Dissolving siblings’ relationships during the Carolingian era: an impossible task?” Justine Audebrand, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
“The Absence of the Knot that Binds: Female Eremitic Monasticism and Kinship Ties in Early Medieval Wales.” Caroline Bourne, University of Reading. VIRTUAL.
Break – 10:40am – 11am
Session 2 – 11am – 12:30pm
““Sis uxor bona, soror optima es”: the wife-sister in clerical couples in late Antiquity and Merovingian times (5th-8th century).” Margot Laprade, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
“Remember the Ex. The ‘repudiation’ of wives in early medieval England.” Maria Tranter, University of Basel.
“”His old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front”: Medieval Hostages and the Fracturing of Kinship.” Alice Hicklin, University of Sheffield.
Lunch – 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Roundtable – 1:30 – 2:30pm introduced and chaired by Catherine Cubitt, University of East Anglia.
This event is supported by the generosity of the Past & Present Society, The Department of History, University of York, and the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.
To register to attend, please email both organisers (alex.traves@york.ac.uk and becca.grose@york.ac.uk .) A live copy of this programme with any updates can be found here.
This event is kindly sponsored by The University of York, Department of History, & The Past & Present Society