IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 220: AHRB project on Gender, Nation and Conquest in Anglo-Norman Writers: Anglo-Norman Chroniclers, Conquest, and Women
Monday 12 July 2004, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Liverpool |
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Organiser: | Pauline Stafford, School of History, University of Liverpool / Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
Moderator/Chair: | Philip A. Shaw, School of English Literature, Language & Linguistics, University of Sheffield |
Paper 220-a | Women in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Old English, Women's Studies |
Paper 220-b | Gender, Conquest, and Identity in Orderic Vitalis' Historia ecclesiastica (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Women's Studies |
Paper 220-c | Geffrei Gaimar: An Anglo-Norman Chronicler on Anglo-Saxon Women (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - French/ Occitan, Women's Studies |
Abstract | The comparatively new field of gender studies offers a more contextualised vision of women. We have been exploring this angle as part of the AHRB-funded Liverpool project on 'Gender, War, Conquest and Nation in Anglo-Norman Chroniclers'. Our three papers aim to offer a multi-faceted view of how women were perceived by male historiographers during the period immediately preceding and following the Norman Conquest. The portrayal of women by Old English clerics in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle will be complemented by the view of Orderic Vitalis, a continental monk, and by that of Geffrei Gaimar, a lay clerk writing in Anglo-Norman French. |