IMC 2016: Sessions
Session 1733: Writing Women's Letters, III: Intimacy and Agency in the Cloister
Thursday 7 July 2016, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters Database |
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Organisers: | Kathryn Maude, Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies, King's College London Steven Watts, School of History, University of St Andrews |
Moderator/Chair: | Steven Watts, School of History, University of St Andrews |
Paper 1733-a | Migratory Feelings in the Boniface Correspondence (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Gender Studies, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Paper 1733-b | From Anonymity to a New Identity: A 12th-Century Letter to a Nun and Its Hagiographic Afterlife (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Latin, Women's Studies |
Paper 1733-c | Letters, Papal Bulls, and Women's Agency (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
Abstract | This is the third 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 concentrates on women religious, with papers on emotional vocabulary in Anglo-Saxon nuns' letters, the hagiographical afterlife of a letter by Arnulf of Lisieux, and women’s agency in letters and papal bulls from England and Eastern Europe. |