IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 1306: Demarcation of Gender through Qualities and Emotions
Wednesday 5 July 2017, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz / Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Organiser: | Käthe Sonnleitner, Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sieglinde Hartmann, Oswald von Wolkenstein-Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 1306-a | Love: A Unique Characterisic of 10th-Century Female Historiography? (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1306-b | Hildegard of Bingen's Evaluation of Male and Female Emotions (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Medicine, Theology, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1306-c | Stereotyped Masculinities: The Crusading Miles Christianus and His Adversary (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
| Abstract | The session examines how medieval authors attribute emotions and moral qualities to demarcate gender. However, there is no strict line between men and women as demarcations are frequentry transgressed. It is also interesting to see that different cultures construct gender in a different manner. Christian and Muslim sources of the crusading period depict stereotyped masculinities which vary in many aspects.The papers are based on a variety of sources, such as 10th-century Ottonian historiography, the theological and scientific writings by Hildegard of Bingen and 12th and 13th-century Arabic historiography. |