Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Theme: Gender
Convenors: Natalia Nowakowska, Hannah Skoda and John Watts
Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College (except for WEEK 1). Sherry afterwards. Undergraduates welcome.
Week 1(17 January)
Professor Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)
Gender: a useful concept for medievalists...
***This meeting will take place in the Seminar Room***
Week 2 (24 January)
Professor Michelle Szkilnik (Paris III)
Building male communities in the Jouvencel by Jean de Bueil
Week 3 (31January)
Maya Corry
Gender ambiguity and the Leonardesque youth in Renaissance Milan
Week 4 (7 February)
Professor Judith Bennett (Southern California)
Early, erotic, and alien: cross-dressing in late medieval London
Week 5 (14 February)
Dr Caroline Dodds Pennock (Sheffield)
Aztec men and women in the Atlantic World, 1492-1600
Week 6 (21 February)
Professor Bernhard Jussen (Bielefeld)
Mulier: a semantic exploration in late medieval political theory
Week 7 (28 February)
Professor Judith Bryce (Bristol)
Male friendship, adolescent passion, and political tensions in a letter of 1465 to Lorenzo de' Medici
Week 8 (6 March)
Dr Emma Cayley (Exeter) and Dr Helen Swift (St Hilda’s)
Debating gender in late medieval France