IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1018: Marginal Communities in Globalised Mediterranean Networks, I: Women on the Margins

Organiser:	Anna C. Kelley, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham
Moderator/Chair:	Anna C. Kelley, Department of Classics, Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham
Paper 1018-a	Knowledge Networks and Caliphal Women in the Umayyad Court of al-Andalus (Language: English) Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Instituto de Historia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid Index terms: Gender Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies
Paper 1018-b	Traveling on the Margins: Women's Monasticism and Pilgrimage Networks in Late Antiquity (Language: English) Grace Stafford, Wydział Historii, Uniwersytet Warszawski Index terms: Archaeology - General, Gender Studies, Monasticism, Women's Studies
Abstract	As a bustling epicenter of connectivity, the Eastern Mediterranean of the medieval world was a hub in the development of global communication networks. The papers in these linked sessions examine networks from the perspective of the people on the peripheries and how their local contexts situated them in wider systems. They consider how marginalised communities intersected and interacted with, shaped, and ultimately built networks. The speakers in the first session address the interface between religious women and agency to re-evaluate the discourse of gender and networks.