IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 1324: Approaches to Gendered Landscapes, II: Theories, Territories, and Tropes

Wednesday 7 July 2021, 16.30-18.00

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
Moderator/Chair:	Karen Dempsey, School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science, University of Reading
Paper 1324-a	Gender and Landscape in Norman Chronicles (Language: English) Leonie V. Hicks, Department of History and American Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Political Thought, Women's Studies
Paper 1324-b	Medieval Russian Princesses and the Image of Rus' (Language: English) Victoria Legkikh, Institut für Slawistik, Universität Wien Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Political Thought, Women's Studies
Paper 1324-c	Watery Women?: Landscape, Gender, and Sanctity in Medieval East Anglia (Language: English) Rebecca Pinner, School of Literature & Creative Writing, University of East Anglia Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Language and Literature - Other, Women's Studies
Abstract	Interactions with medieval landscapes often appear male-orientated in medieval sources, from Brutus' 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 two interdisciplinary panels explore how women, both historical and representational, took control of and shaped geographical landscapes and borders at a variety of scales. Our second panel interrogates how gendered perspectives of territorial sanctity, authority, and personification can enhance our understandings of landscapes across Normandy, Rus, and England.