IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 617: Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, I: Sex, Violence, and Crisis
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 11.15-12.45
Organiser: | Eric Fournier, Department of History, West Chester University of Pennsylvania |
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Moderator/Chair: | Eric Fournier, Department of History, West Chester University of Pennsylvania |
Paper 617-a | Grace, Free Will, and 'Unavoidable' Sex: Women in Service in the Early Medieval West (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Sexuality, Social History, Women's Studies |
Paper 617-b | Gendered Disasters in the Post-Roman West (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, Social History, Women's Studies |
Paper 617-c | Representing Gender-Based Violence in Late Antiquity and Beyond (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Gender Studies, 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 analyse 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. |