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SUMMARY:Friends\, Enemies\, Kin: Constructing Kinship Webs and Situational
   Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe - Christian Raffensperger (W
 ittenberg)
DTSTART:20161025T160000Z
DTEND:20161025T173000Z
UID:TALK67438@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:21355
DESCRIPTION:Problematizing the idea of the nation-state read back into the
  past\, modern ideas of ethnicity\, and even the common methods of utilizi
 ng terminology for medieval clans and families\, leaves a discursive lacun
 a. What is left are largely individuals\, set loosely into a family struct
 ure\; but a new kind of structure in which individual identities and famil
 ies are tracked bilaterally and all of the various parameters of influence
  and history are considered. This talk will place those individuals into a
  further interpretive framework\, utilizing two new categories of discours
 e: the kinship web and situational kinship networks. These concepts create
  a structure for individual behavior and action that can be used for the a
 nalysis of events in medieval eastern Europe in particular\, but throughou
 t the medieval world as well.\n\nBio:\nChristian Raffensperger is an Assoc
 iate Professor of History at Wittenberg University. The broad aim of his w
 ork is the integration of medieval eastern Europe into the larger medieval
  European world. His first two books (Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in
  the Medieval World (2012) and Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Mar
 riage in Kyivan Rus’ (2016)) have focused specifically on the kingdom of
  Rus’\, and its place in Europe. While forthcoming works look more broad
 ly at rulership\, titulature\, and governance in medieval Europe\, and med
 ieval eastern Europe specifically. 
LOCATION:Latimer room\, Clare College\, Cambridge
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