IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1533: Writing Women's Letters, I: Nobility and National Identity
Thursday 7 July 2016, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters Database |
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| Organiser: | Kathryn Maude, Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London |
| Moderator/Chair: | Hana Videen, Department of English, King's College London |
| Paper 1533-a | The Letters of Some Queens from the House of Barcelona as an Example of Relationships between Courtiers and of Political Action (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1533-b | Amor et Virginitas: Addressing Women in Baudri of Bourgueil's Verse Epistles (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1533-c | The Letters of Elizabeth Cressener to Thomas Cromwell: Communal Negotiation of a Pre-Dissolution English Convent (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This is the first panel in a series about letters to and from women in the Middle Ages. Sponsored by the Epistolae database of women's letters, the three panels bring together scholars from Europe, North America, and Australasia to provide a survey of current research on women’s epistolary traditions and discuss innovative approaches to the field. This panel considers letters to and from noble women as a generic category, with papers on the letters of the queens of Catalan and Aragon, the verse letters of Baudri of Bourgueil, and the letters of the Bohemian Queen Kunhuta. |