Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	105
Title	Social Bonds, Kinship, and Networks: Studies from Medieval People
Date/Time	Monday 4 July 2022: 11.15-12.45
Sponsor	Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship & Networks
Organiser	Charlotte Cartwright, Department of History, Christopher Newport University, Virginia
Moderator/Chair	Charlotte Cartwright, Department of History, Christopher Newport University, Virginia
Paper 105-a	The Social Networks of Carolingian Septimania (Language: English) Courtney Luckhardt, Department of History, University of Southern Mississippi Index Terms: Charters and Diplomatics; Computing in Medieval Studies; Genealogy and Prosopography; Social History
Paper 105-b	Life-Writing on Lead (Language: English) Elisabeth van Houts, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge Index Terms: Epigraphy; Genealogy and Prosopography; Social History
Paper 105-c	Searching for Unfree Families in 13th-Century Byzantium: Marital Consent in the Dossiers of Demetrios Chomatenos and John Apokaukos (Language: English) Nathan Leidholm, Program in Cultures, Civilizations & Ideas, Bilkent University, Ankara Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Canon Law; Genealogy and Prosopography; Social History
Paper 105-d	Complicated Lives and Collaborative Research: Mapping the Effects of Conversion to Christianity on Jewish Marriage Practices in Late Medieval Girona (Language: English) Alexandra Guerson, New College, University of Toronto Dana Wessell Lightfoot, Department of History, University of Northern British Columbia Index Terms: Computing in Medieval Studies; Genealogy and Prosopography; Hebrew and Jewish Studies; Social History
Abstract	This session highlights new research published in the journal Medieval People: Social Bonds, Kinship, and Networks, formerly titled Medieval Prosopography. These studies show how new readings of sources and social network analysis can be used to shed light on understudied groups, from patronage networks in early medieval Septimania, to women and children in France and the Low Countries, to unfree families in Byzantium and Jewish families in late medieval Spain.