IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1106: Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Successor States, II: Gaul (i)
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Eric Fournier, Department of History, West Chester University of Pennsylvania |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Lisa Bailey, Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Auckland |
| Paper 1106-a | Women at the Boundaries of the Church in Late Antique Burgundy: Sex, Incest, and Gendered Absence (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Sexuality, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1106-b | Women in the Lex Burgundionum (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Law, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1106-c | Captive Queens and Rebellious Nuns: A Re-Examination of the 'Scandal' in Poitiers (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Religious Life, Women's Studies |
| 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. |