IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1226: Women, Memory, and Material Culture
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship |
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Organiser: | Erin Jordan, Department of History, Old Dominion University, Virginia |
Moderator/Chair: | Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, Department of Languages & Literatures, University of Northern Iowa |
Paper 1226-a | Hero or Heretic: Remembering Marguerite Porete (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Lay Piety, Religious Life |
Paper 1226-b | 'In good memory of...': The Significance of Familial Commemorations in the Seals of Scottish Countesses in Late Medieval Scotland, c. 1300-1450 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Paper 1226-c | To Lie beside the Virgin: The Funerary Chapel of Queen Melisende of Jerusalem (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Gender Studies, Monasticism, Politics and Diplomacy |
Abstract | The proposed session on Women, Memory and Material Culture will address the various ways women living in the Middles Ages were involved in commemoration, personal, familial or public. It will consider how the end product of these efforts (literary, artistic, or architectural) was gendered or shaped by considerations unique to women. It will also explore the intersection of material culture and public authority by examining the political dimension of commemoration. These panels will foster a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach to understanding women's roles in material commemoration from the 11th to the 19th century. |