IMC 2014: Sessions

Since the early 1980s scholars have been engaged in a discussion of the questions of 'Did women have power and, if so, what kind of power did they have?'. Much ink has been put to paper to demonstrate that women did in fact exercise all sorts of power ­ ranging from the formal to informal, family to political, religious to cultural. This body of work begs the question of whether or not scholars need to keep rehearsing these questions or if it is time to move on to other issues. In short, the scholarship on medieval women is at a watershed moment. A group of scholars working in this field are collaborating on these very questions and organizing sessions at a variety of conferences over the next few years. This round table is part of what is envisioned as a multi-year, multi-conference, multi-disciplinary dialogue about these issues. Participants in this round table include established scholars as well as those at the start of their careers in order to give the widest possible perspective on the issues under discussion.

Participants include Theresa Earenfight (Seattle University), Joanna Huntington (University of Lincoln), Amy Livingstone (Wittenberg University), Therese Martin (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid), and Penelope Joan Nash (University of Sydney).