A proposed Session for the 55th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI (May 7 to 10, 2020)
Title: Women in Learned Circles and Communities (1400-1650)
Organizer: Anne Larsen
Sponsoring Organization: The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender
During the past decade, there has been increased scholarly attention to women’s participation in cultural production through groups—salons, literary circles, scientific and philosophical circles and academies, religious circles, medical communities, artists’ and performing artists’ communities, correspondence networks, and patronage networks. Such groups provided women key points of entry into public discourses of many sorts. This session will explore the longue durée of learned circles and communities in which women participated over the course of two and a half centuries.
Please send by Friday 6 September an abstract and a brief CV to Anne Larsen at alarsen@hope.edu.