Women's Words: Female Instruction in the Medieval British Isles
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Jenny C. Bledsoe, Lainie Ann Pomerleau
Organizer Affiliation
Emory Univ., Univ. of Georgia
Presider Name
Lainie Ann Pomerleau
Paper Title 1
"Ne shal not Blancheflour lerne with me?": Depicting and Actualizing Female Learning in the Auchinleck Manuscript
Presenter 1 Name
Emma Osborne
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Univ. of Glasgow
Paper Title 2
"Ye do the wrong and not the ryght": Women's Advice and The Erle of Tolous
Presenter 2 Name
Sarah Lindsay
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Milligan College
Paper Title 3
Teaching by Example: Julian of Norwich's Devotional Hermeneutics
Presenter 3 Name
Jessica Barr
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst
Paper Title 4
The Unhelpful Wife: Comparing Women's Advice in the Early Irish Tales "Bricriu's Feast" and "The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig"
Presenter 4 Name
Jennifer L. Knight
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of South Florida
Paper Title 5
"Venomous Allurements": Narrative in Women's Conduct Manuals
Presenter 5 Name
Sarah Mayo
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Univ. of Georgia
Start Date
15-5-2016 8:30 AM
Session Location
Schneider 1155
Description
Our session explores the relationship between teaching texts and learning women in conjunction with the language, locations, and spaces of female education. Papers may include discussions of vernacular and Latin learning, spiritual and non-religious feminine instruction, the iconography and depiction of female learning, and the presentation and exchange of educational materials in a manuscript culture.
We hope to address gaps in current research and to explore the dynamics of female pedagogical literature, the creation of gendered instructional voices, and the forms and genres of women’s educational material, including explicitly didactic texts as well as books of manners, romances, and hagiography. Papers may examine the societal significance and influence of medieval women’s instructional literature especially in relation to works written and produced by women writers. In order to facilitate a dialogue between individual presentations, we will limit topics to the British Isles, but will leave the time period open to all medieval texts (500-1500).
Women's Words: Female Instruction in the Medieval British Isles
Schneider 1155
Our session explores the relationship between teaching texts and learning women in conjunction with the language, locations, and spaces of female education. Papers may include discussions of vernacular and Latin learning, spiritual and non-religious feminine instruction, the iconography and depiction of female learning, and the presentation and exchange of educational materials in a manuscript culture.
We hope to address gaps in current research and to explore the dynamics of female pedagogical literature, the creation of gendered instructional voices, and the forms and genres of women’s educational material, including explicitly didactic texts as well as books of manners, romances, and hagiography. Papers may examine the societal significance and influence of medieval women’s instructional literature especially in relation to works written and produced by women writers. In order to facilitate a dialogue between individual presentations, we will limit topics to the British Isles, but will leave the time period open to all medieval texts (500-1500).