IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 104: Gender in Place in the Early Middle Ages
Monday 7 July 2008, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Gender & Medieval Studies Group (GMS) / King's College London |
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Organiser: | Clare A. Lees, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London |
Moderator/Chair: | Josh Davies, Department of English Language & Literature, King's College London |
Paper 104-a | Past Performance: Gender and Identity in Anglo-Saxon Contexts (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 104-b | On Gendered Ground: Saintly Bodies and the Writing of Political Territory (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English |
Paper 104-c | Mourning the Family Eth(n)ic: Anglo-Saxon Contexts (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English |
Abstract | This session explores the relation between place and gender in the early Middle Ages. It considers the question of how and where gender is located or performed in the material world, whether that world is represented by hagiographical and political discourses or by funerary monuments and other markers of ethnicity and identity. The session is deliberately inter-disciplinary and works with Anglo-Saxon, British, and Norse contexts in order to advance critical discussion about space, place, gender, and sexuality in the early Middle Ages. |