IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 107: Rulership and Gender in the Later Middle Ages: Dynamics of Representation and Experience
Monday 7 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | University of Huddersfield |
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| Organisers: | Emma Levitt, Department of History, University of Huddersfield Ashley Sarah Winterbottom-Firth, Division of History, University of Huddersfield |
| Moderator/Chair: | Katherine J. Lewis, Department of History, University of Huddersfield |
| Paper 107-a | William of Tyre's Representation of Melisende of Jerusalem: A 12th-Century Female King? (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Paper 107-b | Was There a Medical Basis of a Queen's Right to Rule?: Gender and Inheritance in Pierre André's Pomum aureum, 1444 (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Medicine, Political Thought, Women's Studies |
| Paper 107-c | 'A Second King': Chivalric Masculinity and the Meteoric Rise of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, c. 1484-1545 (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Heraldry |
| Abstract | This session will explore the relationships between rulership and gender in the later Middle Ages, considering in particular the extent to which the established qualities of rulership could be embodied by those who were not kings (or even men). Two of the papers will address the issue of female inheritance and women's capacity to rule; the third will trace the means by which a man of relatively low social status came to be recognised as king-like, thanks to his skills in the tiltyard. In exploring the experiences and representation of specific individuals the papers will reveal the extent to which medieval understandings of gender could encompass both biological and socially performative aspects. |