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Becca Grose
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Social historian of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Inscriptions, Burgundians. Postdoc on Land & Loyalty: Politics of Land in the Later Roman World at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Here for the CfPs and new publications.
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This was so fun! I enjoyed the papers + micrunning too much to take photos, but immense gratitude to @michaelajaneruth.bsky.social and @lisakaarenbailey.bsky.social for taking this forward, all speakers for their diversity of gendered approaches + Shane for showing how weird the Merovingians were.
Session: 1016 Newlyn Building: GR.07 Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, I: LANGUAGE Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Moderator: Guy Halsall, Department of Archaeology, Durham University 1016-a: Don't Offend the Queen: A Gendered, Narratological Analysis of the Death of Leudast (Language: English) Nelson Bennett, Department of Historical Studies, Central European University, Budapest/Wien 1016-b: Tamquam novus: Drawing Biblical Models into the Merovingian Present (Language: English) Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 1016-c: 'Excellentiae vestrae Christianitas': The Merovingian Queen, Her Roles, and Their Dynamics in 6th-Century Letters (Language: English) Julia Wilm, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Session: 1116 Newlyn Building: GR.07 Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, II: POWER Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Moderator: Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 1116-a: Venantius Fortunatus and the Exaltation of Feminine Figures of Power (Language: English) Amélie Belleli, Institut National de Recherche Archéologiques Préventives (INRAP), Paris 1116-b: Voices of the Populus: Gender and Epistolary Influence in Merovingian Episcopal Successions (Language: English) Anne Sieberichs, Departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie, Universiteit Utrecht 1116-c: History, Narrative, and Mutability in One Vita from Merovingian Gaul: A Woman for the Age or an Age for the Woman? (Language: English) Carole Ann Pinnington, Department of History, University of Liverpool Session: 1216 Newlyn Building: GR.07 Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, III: TIME Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Moderator: John Merrington, All Souls College, University of Oxford 1216-a: Nocturnal Visions in the Hagiography of Aldegund (Language: English) Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland 1216-b: Two Anonymous Late Antique Women and a Moment in Time and Space (Language: English) Ralph Mathisen, Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign 1216-c: Beyond the Hour: Gendered Miracles and Temporal Distortions at Faremoutiers (Language: English) Yaniv Fox, Department of General History, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan Session: 1316 Newlyn Building: GR.07 Title: NARRATING GENDER AND LIFE CYCLES IN MEROVINGIAN GAUL, IV: MATERIALITY Organisers: Lisa Bailey, Faculty of Arts & Education, University of Auckland and Michaela Selway, Seminar für Mittelalterliche Geschichte, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Moderator: Becca Grose, School of Classics, University of St Andrews Respondent: Shane Bjornlie, Department of History, Claremont McKenna College, California 1316-a: Perpetual Presents: The Sarcophagus of Chrodoara and the Miraculous Temporalities of Women Donor-Saints (Language: English) May Peterson, Department of Art History, University of Chicago 1316-b: Fabricating Gender: Textiles in Late Antique Literature (Language: English) Hope Williard, Departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie, Universiteit Utrecht
July 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM