Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Medieval World ca. 600-1250
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Amber Handy
Organizer Affiliation
Mississippi Univ. for Women
Presider Name
Amber Handy
Paper Title 1
Bromance: Foster Brothers in Medieval Irish Literature
Presenter 1 Name
Lahney Preston-Matto
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Adelphi Univ.
Paper Title 2
"She Who Rests on His Breast": Love between Husband and Wife according to Rabbinical Responsa from Provence and Catalonia
Presenter 2 Name
Koryakina Nadezda
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. de Nantes
Paper Title 3
Brothers and Sisters: Sibling Bonds in Early Medieval Letters, ca. 700-900
Presenter 3 Name
Hailey LaVoy
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Notre Dame
Paper Title 4
The Hearts of Men: Aristocratic Men and Their Familial Relations
Presenter 4 Name
Amy Livingstone
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Wittenberg Univ.
Start Date
9-5-2013 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1220
Description
This session will focus on descriptions of love within the family between c. 600-1250. Familial love was a social and cultural foundation, described by some medieval authors as the microcosm for wider social order and interaction. It was also a model used to portray the close bonds of religious relationships, such as the ties between monk and abbot, layperson and priest, or human and God. Descriptions of familial love also have much to offer scholars interested in medieval gender, as expressions of love vary based on the gender, age, and relative power dynamic of the parties involved.
Within this session we hope to discover how love was expressed or enacted between parents and children, spouses, and siblings in natal, adoptive and foster families. This interdisciplinary panel will reflect the various ways that familial love is described in the textual and material culture of the early and central medieval world. The aim of the panel is to bring together scholars who wish to explore how expressions of love and family bonds can deepen our understanding of the literature and emotional, social, cultural, and political history of the early and central Middle Ages.
Amber Handy
Loving Relations: Familial Love in the Medieval World ca. 600-1250
Schneider 1220
This session will focus on descriptions of love within the family between c. 600-1250. Familial love was a social and cultural foundation, described by some medieval authors as the microcosm for wider social order and interaction. It was also a model used to portray the close bonds of religious relationships, such as the ties between monk and abbot, layperson and priest, or human and God. Descriptions of familial love also have much to offer scholars interested in medieval gender, as expressions of love vary based on the gender, age, and relative power dynamic of the parties involved.
Within this session we hope to discover how love was expressed or enacted between parents and children, spouses, and siblings in natal, adoptive and foster families. This interdisciplinary panel will reflect the various ways that familial love is described in the textual and material culture of the early and central medieval world. The aim of the panel is to bring together scholars who wish to explore how expressions of love and family bonds can deepen our understanding of the literature and emotional, social, cultural, and political history of the early and central Middle Ages.
Amber Handy