Institute for Medieval Studies

Session	1206
Title	Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Successor States, III: Spain
Date/Time	Wednesday 6 July 2022: 14.15-15.45
Organiser	Maijastina Kahlos, Department of Classics, University of Helsinki / Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Moderator/Chair	Kristina Sessa, Department of History, Ohio State University
Paper 1206-a	The Abbess and the Inscription: A Material Perspective on Women's Monasticism in Visigothic Spain (Language: English) Grace Stafford, Wydział Historii, Uniwersytet Warszawski Index Terms: Gender Studies; Language and Literature - Latin; Religious Life; Social History
Paper 1206-b	Formative Spaces: Making Female Ascetics in Early Medieval Iberia (Language: English) Jamie Wood, School of Humanities & Heritage, University of Lincoln Index Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Language and Literature - Latin; Social History
Paper 1206-c	Narratives of Female Martyrdom in Visigothic Spain (Language: English) Maria Mar Marcos Sanchez, Departamento de Ciencias Históricas, Universidad de Cantabria Index Terms: Gender Studies; Hagiography; Language and Literature - Latin; Social History
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 analyse 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.