Session1537
TitleStatus, Rank, or Office?: Social Boundaries in England, 900-1200, I
Date/TimeThursday 7 July 2022: 09.00-10.30
 
SponsorHaskins Society / Department of History & Philosophy, State University of New York, Old Westbury
 
OrganiserMary Blanchard, Department of History, Ave Maria University, Florida
Chelsea Shields-Más, Department of History & Philosophy, State University of New York, Old Westbury
 
Moderator/ChairChristopher Riedel, Department of History, Albion College, Michigan
 
Paper 1537-a København, Kongelige Bibliotek, G.K.S. 1595: An Ideological Gift from Archbishop Wulfstan of York to Bishop Gerbrand of Roskilde and Its Context within the Reign of Cnut
(Language: English)
Sam Holmes, School of History, University of East Anglia
Index Terms: Administration; Language and Literature - Comparative; Manuscripts and Palaeography
Paper 1537-b Abbatial Office and Politics in Pre-Conquest England
(Language: English)
Mary Blanchard, Department of History, Ave Maria University, Florida
Index Terms: Administration; Genealogy and Prosopography; Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1537-c Power and Politics: The Crozier in 10th- and 11th-Century England
(Language: English)
Sophie Kelly, Department of History of Art, University of Bristol
Index Terms: Art History - Decorative Arts; Ecclesiastical History; Liturgy; Politics and Diplomacy
 
AbstractThese sessions ask where did status end and office begin in pre-Conquest England and how things changed under the Normans? Can the men and women who gained status and office in the ecclesiastical sphere tell us things about those who obtained the same thing in the secular world? What can a discussion of the lower male and female aristocrats reveal about those who held the office of reeve or earl? Addressing these and other questions furthers a multifaceted understanding of the period including revelations of social and political regional variation in England in the 9th through 12th centuries.