Holy Women Making Bonds: Relationships, Networks, Interpretations

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History

Organizer Name

Judith Sutera OSB

Organizer Affiliation

Magistra Publications

Presider Name

Laura Swan OSB

Presider Affiliation

Magistra Publications

Paper Title 1

Lucia de Narni and María de Santo Domingo: A Female Trans-national Alliance through Male Letter Writing

Presenter 1 Name

Borja Gama de Cossio

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Tulane Univ.

Paper Title 2

Making Pastoral Bonds: Women's Religious Networks in Medieval France

Presenter 2 Name

Tanya Stabler Miller

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Loyola Univ. Chicago

Paper Title 3

The Authority to Fight Back: Allowing Women the Agency to Rebel against the Patriarchy in the Fourteenth Century

Presenter 3 Name

Katharine Beaulieu

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Paper Title 4

"Blissyd Be That Puer Vergin": Gender, Authority, and Sanctity in the Digby Mary Magdalene

Presenter 4 Name

Abigail Greff

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Ohio State Univ.

Start Date

12-5-2018 10:00 AM

Session Location

Bernhard Brown & Gold Room

Description

Presentations on holy women's networks, feminine identity, and friendships as ways of establishing bonds that furthered their spiritual life and expanded gender roles

Judith Sutera