Women and/as Objects: Foreign Brides and Cultural Transmission I

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Stanford Univ.

Organizer Name

Fiona J. Griffiths, Kathryn Starkey

Organizer Affiliation

Stanford Univ., Stanford Univ.

Presider Name

Christian Raffensperger

Presider Affiliation

Wittenberg Univ.

Paper Title 1

Rus-Born Brides of Polish Rulers and Their Objects in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Three Case Studies of Cultural Transfer

Presenter 1 Name

Talia Zajac

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto

Paper Title 2

Anne of Bohemia and Her Contributions to the Court of Richard II

Presenter 2 Name

Kristen Geaman

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Toledo

Start Date

12-5-2017 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1350

Description

Marriage made women “ambassadors of culture,” as Susan Groag Bell pointed out in an influential article on medieval women book owners some thirty years ago. Our purpose in this session is to look particularly at women as dynastic brides. We focus on the objects that women carried with them as foreign brides, as they married into distant families and dynasties, often mastering new languages and cultural practices.

Fiona Griffiths