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Tuesday 26 April
12.00-1.00 Registration and Coffee The Undercroft
1.00-1.15 Welcome Old Class Library
1.15-2.45 Session 1: Transcending Their Sex? Women, Sanctity and Authority Old Class Library, Chair: Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Sanctity and Subversion: Transgressing Boundaries and Moulding Authority in Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries Deborah White (University of Glasgow)
Gendered Violence in Late Anglo-Saxon Hagiography: Rethinking the Sexualisation of Female Martyrs Niamh Kehoe (University College Cork)
The French Lives of St Martha: Holy Gender Transgression and imitatio Huw Grange (University of Oxford)
2.45-3.00 Short Break
3.00-4.00 Session 2: Strategies for Resolving Wrongs (PIMIC Sponsored Session) Old Class Library, Chair: Sarah Greer
Policing Morality: Flogging and Moral Transgression in the Carolingian Period Max McComb (Cornell University)
Violence, Wrong, and Justice in Eleventh-Century France Matt McHaffie (Kings College London)
4.00-4.30 Coffee Break The Undercroft
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4.30-6.00 Session 3: Keynote Lecture Old Class Library, Chair: John Hudson
Speakable Subjects? Gender, Heresy and Law in Late Antiquity Caroline Humfress (University of St Andrews)
6.00-7.00 Wine Reception (Sponsored by PIMIC) The Undercroft and Mediaeval History Garden
7.30 Informal Dinner
Wednesday 27 April
9.30-10.30 Session 4: What Makes a Monster? Old Class Library, Chair: Alex Woolf
‘ongeat þa se goda grundwyrgenne merewif mihtig’: Grendel’s Mother’s Transgression in Beowulf Alison Elizabeth Killilea (University College Cork)
Walkers between Worlds: Social Transgression and the Construction of Monstrosity in the Sagas of Icelanders Rebecca Merkelbach (University of Cambridge)
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break The Undercroft
11.00-12.30 Session 5: Keynote Lecture Old Class Library, Chair: James Palmer
Bad Bodies: Problems in Dynastic Reproduction from Fifth-Century Constantinople to Eleventh-Century Goslar Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow)
12.30-1.15 Lunch The Undercroft
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1.15-2.45 Tour of Medieval St Andrews Meet in the Undercroft, Led by Alex Woolf
2.45-3.00 Short Break
3.00-4.00 Session 6: Magic in the Margins Old Class Library, Chair: Tim Greenwood
Transgressive Reading: Retrieving the Textual Environment of the Old English Martyrology Fragment in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 Patricia O’Connor (University College Cork)
Under the Light of Venus: Transgressive Performativity in Medieval Arabic Occultism Liana Saif (University of Oxford)
4.00-4.30 Coffee Break The Undercroft
4.30-6.00 Session 7: Codes of Conduct (CMEMLL sponsored session) Old Class Library, Chair: Margaret Connolly
Burning Breasts: Grieving Mothers as Counsel-Givers in Old French and Anglo-Norman Literature Cory Hitt (University of St Andrews)
Gendered Codes of Conduct and the Dangers of Transgression Claudia Wittig (University of York)
Transgression, or Welsh Law? Aranrhod’s Unmaternal Behaviour in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi Re-examined Joan Marie Gallagher (University of Glasgow)
5.15-6.30 Wine Reception The Undercroft and Mediaeval History Garden
7.00 Conference Dinner
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Thursday 28 April
9.30-10.30 Session 8: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Old Class Library, Chair: Christine McGladdery
The Female Ancestors of Henry FitzEmpress and Skúli Bárðarson: Inherited Traits and Legitimisation of Succession Peter Lunga (University of Cambridge)
Transgressing Legal Boundaries: Female Landowners and Their Opportunities in Late Medieval Norway Susann Anett Pederson (Norwegian University of Technology and Science)
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break The Undercroft
11.00-12.00 Session 9: Model Women Old Class Library, Chair: Victoria Turner
Women in the Liber Pontificalis Adrián Viale (Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne)
Exotic Femininity: Difference and Permission in the Saracen Princesses of Middle English Romance Jane Bonsall (University of Edinburgh)
12.00 Conference Ends
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Speaker Biographies
Dr Huw Grange is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the
University of Oxford where he is producing an edition of the Old
French ‘Dialogue between a Father and Son’. After completing his
PhD on Medieval French and Occitan literature at the University of
Cambridge, he held a teaching fellowship in Medieval French in
Oxford and postdoctoral posts with the University of Kent’s
Elucidarium Project (2012-14) and with the Medieval Francophone
Project (Cambridge/KCL/UCL) (2014-15). His book entitled Saints
and Monsters in Medieval French and Occitan Literature: Sublime
and Abject Bodies is going to be published by Legenda.
Dr Liana Saif is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the
Oriental Institute (University of Oxford). Her current project in
entitled "On the Margins of Orthodoxy: Magic in Medieval Islam".
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of magical practices
in medieval Islam (from pseudo-Hermetica to Aḥmad al-Bunī), their
cosmological frameworks, and the epistemological shifts that
transformed them. She is also interested in the intercultural
exchange of occult and esoteric ideas between the Islamic World
and Europe particularly in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Her book "The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult
Philosophy" was published in September last year.
Dr Matthew McHaffie joined Kings College London in September
2014 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. His PhD thesis,
completed at the University of St Andrews, looked at lordship and
landholding in eleventh-century Anjou. His postdoctoral research
explores the functioning of seigneurial courts in eleventh and
twelfth-century north-western France. This project examines the
interaction between power and law, asking how lords used courts
to exercise power, and in what ways the exercise of seigneurial
power was limited by the court. He is currently preparing a
monograph provisionally entitled Violence and the 'Legal
Revolution': Law and Lordship in Eleventh-Century France.
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Keynote Speakers
Professor Caroline Humfress joined the School of History in
St Andrews in 2015, where she is the Deputy Director of the
Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, having previously
worked in the University of London (Birkbeck), the University of
Oxford and UC Berkeley. She is completing a monograph for
Oxford University Press, entitled Multi–legalism in Late Antiquity,
and has published extensively on legal history and theory, the
history of late antiquity, and the history of empires. She is currently
involved in two international research projects: the European
Commission funded ‘Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and
Christendom’ and ‘The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient
Law’.
Dr Stuart Airlie is a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
He has published widely on the actors of Carolingian politics and
the structures in which they operated, and in 2012 a number of
these articles were collected together in the volume Power and its
Problems in the Carolingian Empire. He is currently writing a book,
which will be entitled Carolingian Politics which examines how the
Carolingian hegemony was maintained through the ninth century.
Dr Airlie is also a participant in the project ‘Powers and Institutions
in Medieval Islam and Christendom’. He is one of the editors of the
journal Gender & History.
Contact Information
genderandtransgression@st-andrews.ac.uk
Gender and Transgression 2016
c/o Institute of Mediaeval Studies, University of St Andrews
71 South Street, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9QW
+44 (0)1334 463332
genderandtransgression.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following institutions for their support:
School of History
St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Centre for Medieval Law and Literature
Royal Historical Society
Powers and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom
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Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages is a three-day interdisciplinary
conference for postgraduate and early career researchers hosted by the
St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies (SAIMS).
Conference Organisers: Ethan Birney, Sarah Greer, Lydia Hayes and Fran Murray.
Conference Programme designed and edited by Lili Bagyanszki.
Cover image: The first sin and the expulsion from the garden from Hortus Deliciarum by Herrade of Landsberg (folio 19) M0005753, Wellcome Library, London. CC BY 4.0.
University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013532.
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