Medieval Women Workshop: Works About, By and For Women

The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, the University of St. Michael’s College, and the Centre for Medieval Studies present:

Medieval Women Workshop: Works About, By and For Women
 

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FRIDAY SESSIONS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE VIA ZOOM

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

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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