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Beyond Exceptionalism Conference (18-19 September 2015 at The Ohio State University, Mansfield campus)

July 27, 2015

Beyond Exceptionalism Conference (18-19 September 2015 at The Ohio State University, Mansfield campus)

Beyond Exceptionalism

In 1973, Joann McNamara and Suzanne Fonay Wemple wrote “The Power of Women through the Family” which established the paradigm for understanding elite women’s access to power in the early medieval period, and its decline starting in the late eleventh century. Since the early 1980s, the study of elite women (noble and royal) has flourished and undermined both the timing and extent of elite women’s loss of power during the Central Middle Ages.  This body of work has disproved the “exceptional” status accorded to elite women who exercised power.

 

This interdisciplinary conference aims to foster new avenues and interpretations of elite women and power in the high medieval period, c. 1100-c. 1400 to move the field “beyond exceptionalism”. 

 

For more information including the program, general conference information, links to hotels, as well as registration, please visit the conference website at: www.regonline.com/beyondexceptionalism

Or contact: 

Heather J. Tanner

Phone: (419) 755-4368

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