International Medieval Society, Paris
Société Internationale des Médiévistes, Paris

Symposium 2007 Abstracts

This paper examines which kin Chartrain aristocrats chose to remember.  While many have cast the medieval aristocratic family as “resolutely male” and patrilineal, pious donations reveal that the noble born chose to remember a variety of kin stretching back through generations.  Who the Chartrain noble born chose to remember, and who was entrusted with memorializing kin, hold important implications for our understanding of aristocratic family structure.