IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 210: Exploring Gender and Power in Europe and the Crusader States, I
Monday 1 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | University of York / Universität Basel |
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Organisers: | Jessika Nowak, Historisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Danielle Park, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
Moderator/Chair: | Melanie Panse, Historisches Institut, Universität Duisburg-Essen |
Paper 210-a | Women on the Edge: The Role of Women in the Principality of Antioch (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Paper 210-b | Portraits of Partnership: Manuscript Illuminations and Perspectives on Fulk and Melisende of Jerusalem (Language: English) Index terms: Crusades, Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Paper 210-c | Ducissa or Dux?: Hadwig and the Duchy of Swabia (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
Paper 210-d | The Imagined Woman?: Portrayals of Blanche of Castile in a Historical Context (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought |
Abstract | This session explores gender and power in the Middle Ages. We explore a wide geographical and chronological range. By encompassing both Europe (from the 9th to the 15th century) and the Crusader States (from the 12th to the 13th Century), we will examine a wide range of source material to shed new light, for example, on the complexity of the relationship between gender roles and power relations between marriage partners, women ruling as regents, and those exercising authority in their own right. |