IMC 2020: Sessions
Session 344: Breaching Borders and Crossing Boundaries, II: Transcending Cultural, Societal, and Spiritual Borders of Containment - Towards a Better Understanding of Medieval Gendered Agency and Influence
Monday 6 July 2020, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | Royal Studies Network |
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| Organiser: | Zita Eva Rohr, Department of Modern History, Politics & International Relations, Macquarie University, Sydney |
| Moderator/Chair: | Gabrielle Storey, Department of History, University of Winchester |
| Paper 344-a | The Boundaries of Queenly Intercession: The Example of Isabella of France, Queen of England, 1308-1327 (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Paper 344-b | Transgressing the Gendered Confines of Politics, Power, Language, and Culture: Violant de Bar (1365-1431), Queen of Aragon, a dame sans per? (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Politics and Diplomacy |
| Paper 344-c | Hemmed and Boxed In: The Borders of Containment that Hinder Economic Queenship Research (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Gender Studies, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This session seeks to unpick and examine how the images and representations constructed around medieval and early modern queens, both contemporaneously and down the centuries to the present day, have tended to de-emphasize the roles they played economically, socially, politically, and culturally. Such images and representations have led to the construction of artificial borders of containment. Only by poking into and examining the nooks and crannies of their many roles, activities, and self-representations might we transcend and breach artificial and limiting borders of containment in historical research, thereby enriching our knowledge and understanding of their individual agency and of the office of queenship itself. |