IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 1508: Approaches to Gendered Landscapes, I: Women Outdoors
Thursday 9 July 2020, 09.00-10.30
| Organisers: | Karen Dempsey, School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science, University of Reading Emma Bridget O'Loughlin Bérat, Institut für Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Keltologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Rachel Delman, University College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1508-a | Bounded Spaces: Devotional Practice in the Castle Garden (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1508-b | 'Enterprising Ladies': Women Travellers and the Saga-Steads of Iceland (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Language and Literature - Other |
| Paper 1508-c | 'Upon the ground… was born': Outdoor Childbirth in History Writing (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Other, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Interactions with medieval landscapes often appear innately masculine, from Brutus's foundation of the eponymous Britain to patrilineages derived from castle names to metaphorically feminine (virginal and untamed) lands awaiting male domination. But medieval women also shaped, curated, and cared for the medieval landscape. Our three interdisciplinary panels explore how women, both historical and representational, took control of and shaped geographical landscapes and borders at a variety of scales. Our first panel investigates women's experiences of the 'outdoors', ranging from different expressions of devotional practices to aspects of personal pilgrimage and political land claims through childbirth. |