IMC 2021: Sessions

Session 806: English Monasticism and Gender Studies, 8th-11th Centuries

Organiser:	Lek Hang Chan, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	Alan Thacker, Institute of Historical Research, University of London
Paper 806-a	The Abbot that Was His Own Daughter: Regendering The Life of St Eugenia in Ælfric's Lives of Saints (Language: English) Leanne MacDonald, Department of English, University of Notre Dame, Indiana Index terms: Hagiography, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Latin
Paper 806-b	Different Constructions of Male Sanctity in the Anonymous Life and Bede's Prose Life of Cuthbert (Language: English) Lek Hang Chan, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Monasticism
Paper 806-c	Gender and the Practice of Penance in England, 8th-11th Centuries: The Hagiographical Evidence (Language: English) Katy Cubitt, School of History, University of East Anglia Index terms: Gender Studies, Hagiography, Monasticism
Abstract	This session bring together three papers on issues of gender in pre-Conquest monasticism, focusing respectively on gender aspects of penance, the cross-dressing of religious women and the construction of male sanctity. Together, these papers provide new insights into how the writings of Saints' Lives, in particular, represent and shape gender relations in a monastic context.