Organizer: Sara McDougall (John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center)
Chair: Constance Bouchard (University of Akron)
Amy Livingstone (Wittenberg University), “Breton Bastards: Illegitimacy and Succession in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Brittany”
Miriam Shadis (Ohio University), “Natural Children and Political Structure: Sibling Bonds and Conflicts in Thirteenth-Century Portugal”
Sara McDougall (John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center), “Illegitimacy and the Children of Illegal Marriages”