IMC 2023: Sessions

Session 1105: Canon Law, III: Canon Law and Women

Wednesday 5 July 2023, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:	Gender & History / Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC)
Organiser:	Greta Austin, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound, Washington
Moderator/Chair:	Christof Rolker, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Paper 1105-a	Linking Lay Women and 'Magic' in Bishops' Visitations of the Diocese in the 10th and Early 11th Centuries, as Described in Regino's Two Books and Burchard's Decretum (Language: English) Greta Austin, Department of Religion, University of Puget Sound, Washington Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Paper 1105-b	Women and Men in Medieval Canon Law: Gender Relations in a Network of Legal Texts in the 12th and 13th Centuries (Language: English) Carolina Gual da Silva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil / École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris Carolina Gual Silva, Instituto de História, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Paper 1105-c	Women as Legal Actors in Later Medieval Canon Law (Language: English) Gisela Drossbach, Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Abstract	This session explores the ways that canon law texts discussed women and gender from the 9th through the 13th centuries. It summarizes some key regulations and ideas about women which canonists and canon law collections raised. Rather than simply summarizing 'what did the texts say about women', this session also calls attention to the power dynamics at work. Such dynamics were remarkably complex. On one hand, male clerical elites often shaped regulations in ways that reinforced male clerical authority; at the same time, women could also be legal actors in their own right.