Opening Our Cage: Women, Power, and Agency in the Medieval World, 500-1500

The Long Room Hub

Trinity College Dublin

16 May 2020

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Armando Torres-Fauaz

Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica / Université de Bourgogne

Key reforms in governance during the reing of Alix de Vergy, duchess of Burgundy (1218-1231)

@tf_armando

Rachel Meredith Davis

University of Edinburgh

‘“Lock her up!”: The imprisonment and political career of Isabella, duchess of Albany and countess of Lennox’

@rachmeredavis

Mathilde Pointière Forrest

Louisiana State University

Wielding tools for agency: Christin de Pizan’s pen and Joan of Arc’s sword

@MathildeSPF

Melek Karataş

King's College London

Jeanne de Montbaston and the Bookmaking Women of Medieval Paris

Anwita Roy

University of Calcutta

Katherine of Sutton: First English woman playwright & a rupture in the Medieval misogyny

@roy_anwita

Caitlin Moon

Trinity College Dublin

“The Wife of Bath’s Loathly Conduct”

moonc@tcd.ie

Nicole Demarchi

University of Padova, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice and University of Verona

A history of resistance: Lombard women and Frankish men.

nicole.demarchi.3@phd.unipd.it

Catrin Haberfield

Independent Scholar

Speaking or spoken through? Examining the agency of medieval visionary women

@CatrinH42

Vania Buso

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Bodies for Display: Women, Adultery and the Law in Merovingian Gaul and early Lombard Italy

Raenelda Rivera

Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland

The Plant-Bearing Figure: Accessing Liminality via Feminine Gender Role Adoption

Audrey Covert

Trinity College Dublin

They're burning all the witches, even if you aren't one: Accusations of witchcraft and the danger of female influence

@audreycovert2