Sort

By publication date

By relevance

• 27 sep 2019

  28 sep 2019

  Oxford

  Conference, symposium - Middle Ages

  Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500

  A two-days international conference

  The last decades have witnessed an increased interest in research on the relationship between women and violence in the Middle Ages, with new works both on female criminality and on women as victims of violence. The contributions of gender theory and feminist criminology have renewed the approached used in this type of research. Nevertheless, many facets of the complex relationship between women and violence in medieval times still await to be explored in depth. This conference aims to understand how far the roots of modern assumptions concerning women and violence may be found in the late medieval Mediterranean, a context of intense cultural elaboration and exchange which many scholars have indicated as the cradle of modern judicial culture. While dialogue across the Mediterranean was constant in the late Middle Ages, occasions for comparative discussion remain rare for modern-day scholars, to the detriment of a deeper understanding of the complexity of many issues. Thus, we encourage specialists of different areas across the Mediterranean (Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world) to contribute to the discussion. What were the main differences and similarities? How did these change through time? What were the causes for change? Were coexisting assumptions linking femininity and violence conflicting or collaborating?

  Read announcement

• 13 jan 2011

  14 jan 2011

  Aix-en-Provence

  Conference, symposium - Thought

  La maternité à l'épreuve du genre

  Métamorphoses et permanences de la maternité dans l’aire méditerranéenne

  Le féminisme occidental a remis en question toutes les différenciations sexuées, en montrant que le genre est distinct du sexe. La maternité elle-même, qui demeure pourtant, dans la plupart des sociétés, une expérience féminine, a été reconsidérée. Les cultures méditerranéennes l'ont différemment mythifiée et sacralisée, déjà au temps du polythéisme, puis au temps du monothéisme. Comment se sont transformées ces cultures ? Conservent-elles des caractères spécifiques à travers le temps et l’espace ? Quels rapports entretiennent-elles avec les pratiques ? Comment définissent-elles les normes et les transgressions, à propos des femmes et de la maternité ?

  Read announcement