IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 249: Women versus Borders in Medieval Towns, II: Among Men or Together with Them
Monday 6 July 2020, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Beata Możejko, Zakład Historii Średniowiecza Polski i Nauk Pomocniczych Historii, Uniwersytet Gdański |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Emilia Jamroziak, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Paper 249-a | Do Ermines Equal Ermines?: The Reception of Fur Types in Towns of the Hanseatic League (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Women's Studies |
| Paper 249-b | Children, Kitchen, and Church: Real Boundaries in Women's Lives in Medieval Times? (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Daily Life, Gender Studies, Local History |
| Paper 249-c | The Ideal of the Lay Woman in Medieval Sermons from Krakow (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Lay Piety |
| Abstract | The aim of the first paper is to cross-check two biases that are common in the research on the basis of the norms for women outfits from different towns of the Hanseatic League and additionally also merchant account books. The limits of the use of furs by different social groups will be commended, and will be showed, how the same type of fur was ranked in different towns. In the second paper limitations in women's lives in a medieval town will be analyzed based on the example of sources from Krakow - testaments of townspeople, lists of belongings and town rules, anti-luxuries acts. The third paper presents sermon collections from medieval Krakow, especially sermons composed by the masters of the university in Krakow and cathedral preachers at the same time and some widespread and influential model collections used there in the 15th century that threated about women. |