IMC 2025: Sessions
Session 1316: Narrating Gender and Life Cycles in Merovingian Gaul, IV: Materiality
Wednesday 9 July 2025, 16:30-18:00
| Organisers: | Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Becca Grose, School of Classics, University of St Andrews |
| Respondent: | Shane Bjornlie, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, California |
| Paper 1316-a | Perpetual Presents: The Sarcophagus of Chrodoara and the Miraculous Temporalities of Women Donor-Saints (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Art History - Sculpture, Epigraphy, Hagiography |
| Paper 1316-b | Fabricating Gender: Textiles in Late Antique Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | This strand investigates how Merovingian authors constructed gender and gendered life cycles, and what these approaches and techniques tell us about the significance and mutability of gender in the past, present, and future of Gallic thinkers and their various imagined and intended audiences. This session addresses narrative beyond the written word. May Peterson analyses the Sarcophagus of Chrodoara to consider the intersecting ways that female legacies were narrated after death, as the depiction of Chrodoara's body resisted time while her deeds and miracles extended beyond her own life cycle. Hope Williard considers textile work as a cycle of women's creativity and re-use, and asks how that was captured and narrated by poets from Ausonius to Venantius Fortunatus. |