CONGRESS CANCELED Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives
Description
Read in an analogous way, early medieval texts often seem to reduce women’s social role to either sowing conflict between or reconciling men. This is demonstrated, for example, by the use of the term ‘peaceweavers’ for royal women who marry outside their kingdoms. Historians have often followed such indicators to argue that the primary social expectation of early medieval women was to connect men. The papers in this session will demonstrate how new developments in social network analysis and in literary studies allow us to challenge existing stereotypes and analyse the roles of early medieval women anew.
Mairin MacCarron
CONGRESS CANCELED Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives
Schneider 1120
Read in an analogous way, early medieval texts often seem to reduce women’s social role to either sowing conflict between or reconciling men. This is demonstrated, for example, by the use of the term ‘peaceweavers’ for royal women who marry outside their kingdoms. Historians have often followed such indicators to argue that the primary social expectation of early medieval women was to connect men. The papers in this session will demonstrate how new developments in social network analysis and in literary studies allow us to challenge existing stereotypes and analyse the roles of early medieval women anew.
Mairin MacCarron