IMC 2010: Sessions

Session 524: Exemplarity and Gender, I: Women, Men, and Nature

Sponsor:	ANZAMEMS (Australian & NZ Association for Medieval & Early Modern Studies)
Organiser:	Constant J. Mews, Centre for Studies in Religion & Theology, Monash University, Victoria
Moderator/Chair:	Julie Ann Smith, Department of History, University of Sydney
Paper 524-a	Legal Performative Practice in Immram Brain: Establishing the Woman's Authority and Status (Language: English) Peter James Weeda, Department of History, University of Melbourne Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Celtic, Law
Paper 524-b	Penelope's Pre-Humanist Odyssey (Language: English) Natasha Amendola, School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Victoria Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Sexuality
Paper 524-c	Feminine and Masculine Forces of Nature in Encyclopedias and exempla in the Early 13th Century (Language: English) Tomas Zahora, Department of History, Monash University, Victoria Index terms: Gender Studies, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Science, Sermons and Preaching
Abstract	This is one of two sessions exploring exemplarity and gender, in particular the way medieval literature employs gendered categories to raise crucial questions not just about both women and men, and their interrelationship, but about what medieval society conceived to be 'natural'. Thus it does so by looking at early Irish literature, medieval Latin literature about Penelope, working in the tradition of Ovid, and the encyclopaedic literature of the 12th and 13th centuries.