IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 124: Voices, Places, Actions: Constructs of Gendered Authority in the Central Middle Ages
Monday 9 July 2012, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies / Haskins Society for Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Angevin & Viking History |
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| Organiser: | Katherine Weikert, Department of Archaeology / Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Mark Hagger, School of History, Welsh History & Archaeology, Bangor University |
| Paper 124-a | The Queen's Speech: William of Malmesbury's Gendered Voices of Authority (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Literacy and Orality, Politics and Diplomacy, Rhetoric |
| Paper 124-b | Privacy, Prestige, and Control: Spatial Constructions of Authority at the Estate in the Central Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Gender Studies, Geography and Settlement Studies, Social History |
| Paper 124-c | Nobody Here but Us Rustics: Warriors and Mistaken Identity in the Early and Central Middle Ages (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Mentalities, Military History |
| Abstract | The social construction of medieval authority is a multi-faceted issue. This session addresses these constructs in the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman world from a gender standpoint, examining how authority was constructed, negated, or subverted in relation to feminine and masculine identities. Papers will consider issues of the woman's voice in public speech, prophesy, and prayer; gendered domestic spaces of status at the estate level; and the expectations and subversion of masculinities in a warrior society. These multi-disciplinary papers discuss not only the shaping of gender and authoritative identities in the central Middle Ages but also how those identities could be maintained or undermined. |