IMC 2022: Sessions

Session 1006: Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Successor States, I: Gaul (i)

Organiser:	Maijastina Kahlos, Department of Classics, University of Helsinki / Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair:	Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
Paper 1006-a	No Country for Old Women?: Women and Religious Dissidence in the Post-Roman World (Language: English) Maijastina Kahlos, Department of Classics, University of Helsinki / Clare Hall, University of Cambridge Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Social History
Paper 1006-b	Hidden Heroines: The Appropriation of Women's Voices in Late Antique Latin Literature (Language: English) Hope Williard, Library, University of Lincoln Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Social History
Abstract	It is to address an important gap in current scholarship on women and gender in the post-Roman Western kingdoms that we present a series of panels on the theme of 'women and gender in the post-Roman kingdoms'. We are especially interested in a bottom-up perspective, to analyze the place, role, and experiences of women in the daily life of the period, and to think about how such an approach might alter our view of the social, cultural, and religious history of these kingdoms. Limited by our sources, however, we will also investigate the absence of women and gender concerns in our texts, and look for alternative fonts of knowledge, such as material culture, archaeology, epigraphy, and visual arts.