Medieval Women Revisited
Thursday 7 – Saturday 9 July, 2016
King’s Manor, University of York
Programme
DAY 1: Thursday 7 July
16:00
16:30
16:45
REGISTRATION
WELCOME
Isobel Davis (Birbeck, UK)
The Woman Question – then and now
Rachel Moss (Oxford, UK)
(B)Romance and Rape Culture in Late Medieval England
18:30
Wine Reception
09:15
Daniela Rywiková (Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Sin and Death Gendered: Female Identity in the Late Medieval Pastoral Care
and Visual Culture
DAY 2: Friday 8 July
Gerhard Jaritz (CEU, Hungary/KREMS, Salzburg, Austria)
Late Medieval Visual Culture and the Constructions of Female Space
11:00
Coffee break
11:15
Hollie Morgan (Lincoln, UK)
Where the Magic Happens: The Lady’s Chamber in the Late-Medieval English
Imagination
Kim Phillips (Auckland, NZ)
The Breasts of Virgins: Sexual Reputation and Female Bodies in Medieval
Culture and Society
13:00
LUNCH
14:00
Marija Mogorović Crljenko (Pula, Croatia)
Marriage and Concubinage in Istria during the Transition from the Middle Ages
to the Early Modern Times
Vicki Blud (York, UK)
Unspeakable Acts and Queer Medieval Women
15:45
Tea break
16:15
Beata Możejko (Gdańsk, Poland)
Women in the medieval Hanseatic city of Gdańsk,: Sources and research
problems
Deborah Youngs (Swansea, UK)
‘In most humble wise sheweth and compleyneth….': female plaintiffs and
Star Chamber in early Tudor England and Wales
19:00
Speaker’s Supper
Day 3: Saturday 9 July
09:30
Teresa Phipps (Nottingham, UK)
Locating Women: Gender and Space in Borough Court Records
Jeremy Goldberg (York, UK)
Material Girls Revisited: Problematising the Social and Economic Position of
Women in Later Medieval England
11:15
Coffee Break
11:30
Michaela Antonín Malaníková (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
Guardianship or Partnership? Property Relations of Spouses in Late Medieval
Czech Towns
Cordelia Beattie (Edinburgh, UK)
Did married women stop making wills in fifteenth-century England?
13:15
Lunch
14:30
Round Table: Medieval Women: Where Next?
Centre for Medieval Studies