Women and Power to 1100 (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Haskins Society; Medieval Prosopography
Organizer Name
Valerie L. Garver
Organizer Affiliation
Northern Illinois Univ.
Presider Name
Valerie L. Garver
Paper Title 1
Panelist
Presenter 1 Name
Julie A. Hofmann
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Shenandoah Univ.
Paper Title 2
Panelist
Presenter 2 Name
Jonathan Jarrett
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Univ. of Birmingham
Paper Title 3
Panelist
Presenter 3 Name
Phyllis G. Jestice
Presenter 3 Affiliation
College of Charleston
Paper Title 4
Panelist
Presenter 4 Name
Martha Rampton
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Pacific Univ.
Start Date
14-5-2015 3:30 PM
Session Location
Valley II Eicher 202
Description
This roundtable will address how historians of the Early Middle Ages have approached questions of women and power prior to 1100 as well as recent research trajectories in this area of study. Since the early 1970s medievalists have been engaged in discussing the sorts of power that early medieval women had – ranging from the formal to informal, familial to political, religious to cultural.
Valerie L. Garver
Women and Power to 1100 (A Roundtable)
Valley II Eicher 202
This roundtable will address how historians of the Early Middle Ages have approached questions of women and power prior to 1100 as well as recent research trajectories in this area of study. Since the early 1970s medievalists have been engaged in discussing the sorts of power that early medieval women had – ranging from the formal to informal, familial to political, religious to cultural.
Valerie L. Garver