IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 717: Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, II: Elite Women Defying Expectations
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Organiser: | Maijastina Kahlos, Department of Classics, University of Helsinki / Clare Hall, University of Cambridge |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Maijastina Kahlos, Department of Classics, University of Helsinki / Clare Hall, University of Cambridge |
| Paper 717-a | Rendering Visible the Invisible: Servants and Slave-Girls in Jerome's Letters (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 717-b | Holy Land as Refuge: Push Factors as Motivators for Late Roman Elite Female Pilgrims (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Social History, Women's Studies |
| Paper 717-c | Roles of Imperial Women: Pulcheria and the Bigger Picture (Language: English) Index terms: Byzantine Studies, Social History, 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. |