Medieval Women Workshop V: Works About, By and For Women
Presented by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the University of St Michael's College, and the Centre for Medieval Studies
To register please contact Cynthia Watson at cynthia.watson@utoronto.ca
Friday, 27 January
Friday sessions will also be available via Zoom. For details please contact Cynthia Watson at cynthia.watson@utoronto.ca
2:00 p.m. Tea & Coffee
2:30 p.m. Welcome
2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Lori J. Walters, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto–Florida State University
“Christine de Pizan as Author and Publisher”
3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Christine McWebb, University of Waterloo
"Christine de Pizan: A Literary Champion of Medieval Europe"
4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. David Fernández, Fisher Library – VIA ZOOM
“The Christine de Pizan Manuscript: Fisher Rare Book Library, MS 05041"
5:30 p.m. Reception
Saturday, 28 January
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Coffee, Tea & Danishes
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Jack W. McCart, PhD Candidate, CMS
“Managing Mortality: Women, Plague and Testamentary Practice in Fourteenth-Century London”
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Kirsten Schut, Mellon Fellow, PIMS
“Why Were Lay Women Buried in Friars' Habits ca. 1350-1650?”
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Julia Cole, MA Candidate, Department of History
"La Féminité de Fontevraud?: Ordinary Female Authority in Early Modern French Monastic Network”
11:30 – 11:45 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Graham Johnson, PhD Candidate, CMS
“En habes quod poscebas: Writing for Women, 850–1050 CE”
12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Laura Ingallinella, Assistant Professor, Department of Italian Studies
“A Crooked Path to Helicon: The Forged Poems of Ortensia from Fabriano (d. 1360)”
12:45 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Lunch Break
2:15 p.m.- 3:15 p.m. Brandon Alakas, Associate Professor, English Program, Department of Fine Arts and Humanities, University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty
“Heresy in the Abbey?: John Ryckes’s Ymage of Love and its Birgittine Readers”
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Alicia Smith, Mellon Fellow, PIMS
“The Brothel and the Cell: Gender and Space in the Life of Thais”
4:00 p.m.- 4:30 p.m. Maureen Boulton, Associate Fellow, PIMS
“Margaret of York’s Dialogue with Jesus Christ”
4:45 p.m. Closing Reception