Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	717
Title	Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, II: Elite Women Defying Expectations
Date/Time	Tuesday 5 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
Organiser	Maijastina Kahlos, Department of Classics, University of Helsinki / Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair	Maijastina Kahlos, Department of Classics, University of Helsinki / Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Paper 717-a	Rendering Visible the Invisible: Servants and Slave-Girls in Jerome's Letters (Language: English) Jessica van t'Westeinde, Abteilung für Alte Geschichte und Rezeptionsgeschichte der Antike, Universität Bern Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Language and Literature - Latin; Social History; Women's Studies
Paper 717-b	Holy Land as Refuge: Push Factors as Motivators for Late Roman Elite Female Pilgrims (Language: English) Marlena Whiting, Historisches Seminar: Alte Geschichte & Kulturgeschichte der Antike, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Index Terms: Ecclesiastical History; Religious Life; Social History; Women's Studies
Paper 717-c	Roles of Imperial Women: Pulcheria and the Bigger Picture (Language: English) Belinda Washington, Independent Scholar, Edinburgh Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Social History; Women's Studies
Abstract	It is to address an important gap in current scholarship on women and gender in the post-Roman Western kingdoms that we present a series of panels on the theme of 'women and gender in the post-Roman kingdoms'. We are especially interested in a bottom-up perspective, to analyze the place, role, and experiences of women in the daily life of the period, and to think about how such an approach might alter our view of the social, cultural, and religious history of these kingdoms. Limited by our sources, however, we will also investigate the absence of women and gender concerns in our texts, and look for alternative fonts of knowledge, such as material culture, archaeology, epigraphy, and visual arts.