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
Women and/as Objects: Foreign Brides and Cultural Transmission I
Schneider 1350
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