Priests’ Wives and Concubines in the Medieval West (800-1200)

Femmes et concubines de prêtres en Occident (800-1200)

Colloque international réalisé dans le cadre du projet Priest’s Wives and Concubines in the Medieval West (800-1200) financé par le France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. 

Organisation : E. KURDZIEL (CESCM) et Fiona GRIFFITHS (U. Stanford)

Dates : October 27-28, 2022

Lieu : Stanford University (California, USA)

Thursday October 27

9:20 Greeting and Introduction : Fiona GRIFFITHS and Emilie KURDZIEL

9:30-11:00 – session 1:

Steffen PATZOLD (Universität Tübingen) and Bastiaan Waagmeester (Universität Tübingen): Contexts for the Defense of Clerical Marriage in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

 Coffee break

 11:30-1:00 – session 2:

Anne MASSONI (Université de Limoges) : L’entourage féminin des chanoines de la collégiale Saint-Seurin de Bordeaux au XII^e siècle : épouses et veuves dans la vie communautaire séculière

 Alice HICKLIN (University of Sheffield): Ego Agna, mater tua: Priests’ wives and Female Relatives as Protagonists in Frankish and Spanish Charters, c. 900-1100

1:00-2:30 Lunch

2:30-4:00 – session 3:

Maureen MILLER (Berkeley): Priest’s Wives, their Children, and the Bishop’s Notaries: The Thirteenth-century Visitation Records of Città di Castello

Emilie KURDZIEL (Université de Poitiers): Priests’ and Bishops’ Wives in Tuscany (10-12th): An Ambiguous Recognition

Coffee break

4:30-6:00 – session 4:

Charles MÉRIAUX (Université de Lille): Ecclesia, quae sponsa vel uxor eius dicitur: Priests, Women and Churches in the early medieval West

Charles WEST (University of Sheffield): “Since a priest or deacon cannot have a lawful wife”: Rather of Verona’s struggle against clerical families in late tenthcentury northern Italy.

7:00 Conference dinner

Friday October 28

Tovi BIBRING (Bar-Ilan University): Riding the Black Mare, Casting Away a Hungry Rat: The Priest’s Concubine in Medieval Folklore

 Abel LORENZO-RODRIGUEZ (University of Santiago de Compostela): Put the Blame on Her? Wives, Lovers, Daughters, and Sisters Facing Priest’s Celibacy (NW Iberia, 800-1200)

Coffee break

11:00-12:30 – session 6:

Samuel SUTHERLAND (Stephen F. Austin State University): Priests, Concubines, and Slaves in Central-Medieval Bavaria

 Fiona GRIFFITHS (Stanford University): Making Men “Worthy of the Priesthood”: Clerical Wives and Ordained Husbands

 12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-4:15 – session 7:

Margot LAPRADE (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne): Cleric’s wives in Britanny: Exceptions or Models for Clerical Couples in France ? (late 10th-early 11th century)

 Sara McDOUGALL (John Jay College of Criminal Justice): The Bishop’s Wife Hazel Freestone (Independent): Describing Priests’ Wives in Normandy and England, 1050-1150

 Coffee break

4:45 Wrap up and conference conclusions

Femmes et concubines de prêtres en Occident entre 800 et 1200

Atelier réalisé dans le cadre du projet Priest’s Wives and Concubines in the Medieval West (800-1200) financé par le France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. 

Organisation : E. KURDZIEL (CESCM) et Fiona GRIFFITHS (U. Stanford)

Dates : 19 et 20 mai 2022 à partir de 9h30

Lieu : CESCM – salle Crozet
Hôtel Berthelot, Bât. E13
24 rue de la chaîne – POITIERS

Participants

Margot LAPRADE (Paris I/LAMOP) : Étude de cas – Guinoëdon et Onven, épouses des évêques de Quimper (fin X^e siècle-années 1060).

Ruth KARRAS (Trinity College Dublin) : What did people on the continent know about married priests in Ireland?

Bastiaan WAAGMEESTER (U. Tübingen) : De ratione matrimonii. A very short introduction to wives and concubines from ninth-century Salzburg.

Charles WEST (U. Sheffield) : Rather cross: reading canon law on marriage in the tenth century.

Elisabeth VAN HOUTS (U. Cambridge) : Elite women and priests’wives : countess Adela of Flanders and Queen Matilda II of England.

Hazel FREESTONE (Cambridge) : Remembering priests’ wives: Godgifu uxor of Agalric, canon of Rochester, priest of Chatham in the Textus Roffensis, bef. 1066. 

Alice HICKLIN (U. Sheffield) : Women and their Priestly Relatives in Western European Charters, 900–1100.

Steffen PATZOLD (U. Tübingen) : Priests’ Wifes and concubines in the Collectio Dionysio-Hadriana.

Emmanuelle SANTINELLI-FOLTZ (U. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France/LARSH) : « Ego clericus et uxor / femina mea donamus … ». Femmes et concubines de clercs à la lumière de quelques chartes des X^e-XI^e siècles.

Fiona GRIFFITHS (U. Stanford) : Clerical Husbands and Fathers as Donors in the Eleventh Century.

Emilie KURDZIEL (U. Poitiers/CESCM) : Présence et absence des femmes de prêtres dans les chartes italiennes des 10^e-12^e s.

Charles MERIAUX (U. Lille/IRHIS) : Prêtres, épouses ou concubines dans la province de Reims (des origines au XIe siècle)

Julia BARROW (U. Leeds) : Reflections on the will of Wulf, 1026 x 1046.