Verbis et Exemplis

Queens, Abbesses and Other Female Rulers in Comparison conference and workshop. Run by Megan Welton and @sarahlgreer

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If you've not seen our Leeds 2020 CFP for 'Defining the Boundaries of Female Rulership' then you're missing out! Deadline: August 31st. Abstracts can be sent to [email protected] as well as to our two organisers.

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UPDATE: due to one of our organisers losing access to her institutional email after the 31st of August (the joys of being an ECR!) - proposals can also be submitted to [email protected].

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@IMC_Leeds And here's the full CFP attached!

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@IMC_Leeds And here's the full CFP attached!

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Working on medieval female rulership? We want you! See below for our CFP on 'Defining the Boundaries of Female Rulership in the Middle Ages' for IMC Leeds 2020. Abstracts due August 31st.
#CFP #IMC2020 @IMC_Leeds

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And a big thanks as well to our dedicated group of #twitterstorians @DrLRoach @ASiebach @monarchyconf @GabbyStorey @beneyrewhite @FlorenceHRScott @sarajcharles and @lucykpick

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And we're done! What a fantastic couple of days full of #rulingwomen - many thanks to our excellent speakers for such a brilliant set of papers and discussions.

[Levi Roach @ProfLRoach]

Second up, @lucykpick on networks and elite women in León-Castile. #rulingwomen

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And our last speaker is Amalie Fößel on queens' titles and agency. #rulingwomen

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First up after the tea break, @ASiebach on 'Compiling Power: Epistemic Injustice and the Case of Joan Tateshal'. #rulingwomen

[Ben Eyre-White @beneyrewhite]

And now onto @AMBohne on how Aethelflaed and Aelfflaed coordinated their wills for the care of their family and each other #rulingwomen

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And now onto the later medieval of the session‘s title, with a look at Jouarre Abbey courtesy of @AKMGajewski #rulingwomen

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And now we have the excellent Megan Welton on the laudes regiae. #rulingwomen

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Now onto @lucykpick and on elite women in the early Spanish kingdoms #rulingwomen

[Dr Elena 'Ellie' Woodacre @monarchyconf]

Excellent discussion of the importance of networks in understanding power in @lucykpick ‘s paper, using Urraca Fernández’s charter for Tuy as an example. There has been excellent discussions here at #rulingwomen about how we conceptualize, describe & gender power-fantastic!

[Dr Elena 'Ellie' Woodacre @monarchyconf]

Last in our panel at #rulingwomen is Alexandra Gajewski: Holy queens & abbesses in the later Middle Ages: the case of Jouarre Abbey-related to her work as on the fantastic Reassessing Women as the Makers of Medieval Art & Architecture project & collection https://t.co/lpDNqgMZQC

[Ben Eyre-White @beneyrewhite]

@GabbyStorey starts the morning by looking at the different roles of Berengaria of Navarre and Joanna of Sicily and how their depiction in chronicles influences modern views of them #rulingwomen

[Levi Roach @ProfLRoach]

Very excited now to hear Régine Le Jan's thoughts on Carolingian queens and abbesses. #rulingwomen

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And rounding off the first session, Alexandra Gajewski takes us into the later Middle Ages. #rulingwomen

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And on our final day, @GabbyStorey kicks us off by looking at Berengaria of Navarre and Joanna of Sicily. #rulingwomen

[Ben Eyre-White @beneyrewhite]

The final session of papers begins @verbisexemplis with Regine Le Jan on Carolingian queens and abbesses. Sad the conference is nearly over! #rulingwomen