[Hum_Calendar_Events] "Violent women. Female violence in law and literature during the Middle Ages" - May 19 at Noon

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The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites you to
attend the CMRS Roundtable, "Violent women. Female violence in law and
literature during the Middle Ages" on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 12 noon
in Royce 306.

 

Christine Ekholst (Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of
Technology) relates how women used physical violence to a far less
extent than men during the Middle Ages (as is the case for most periods
in history). Moreover, in medieval Scandinavia use of violence was
closely connected to masculinity. But what happened if a woman used
violence? Did she break social and gender norms or not? How can one
understand the idealized images of female avengers in literature as
contrasted to the evidence found in legal texts, where women in general
were not expected to use violence? I will present some aspects of how
female use of violence was depicted in Scandinavian law and literature
and discuss the ambiguous evidence we find in these different types of
sources.

 

Advance registration not required; please sign the attendance sheet at
the door. No fee. Seating is limited, available on a first-come,
first-served basis.

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