IMC 2007: Sessions
Session 1522: The Body and the Medieval City, I
Thursday 12 July 2007, 09.00-10.30
Sponsor: | Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship |
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Organiser: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
Moderator/Chair: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
Paper 1522-a | The Body of Criseyde in the Vernacular Translatio Imperii and Studii of Troy (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Paper 1522-b | Iurminburh and Ælfflæd: A Tale of Two Women, Carlisle, and Cuthbert (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Social History, Women’s Studies |
Paper 1522-c | Touch and the Body/City (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English, Women’s Studies |
Abstract | This session, along with session II, aims to interrogate the relationship between women, the female body, and the city in the Middle Ages. It will focus, not only on physical bodies in physical urban places, but metaphorical 'bodies' and how they are situated in urban spaces. It will investigate the extent to which the female body is both a product of and, in many cases, productive of the medieval concept of the city. |