Mapping the Medieval Woman

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Contact: The Medieval Academy of America

Website: https://mappingthemedievalwoman.com/

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As part of the celebrations for the MAA's Centennial Year, the Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Committee and the Graduate Student Committee have partnered to organize a year-long series of webinars showcasing exciting DH projects. These will ordinarily take place on the third Friday of each month, from 1-2pm ET. Each session will feature a moderated discussion of two recent/ongoing DH projects followed by an audience Q&A. Beyond highlighting a diverse array of new and exciting projects in Medieval Studies, this series will also serve as an opportunity to share ideas and best practices within the medieval DH community.

SAH members may find interest in the following session:

Friday, April 18, 1-2 pm ET:

Mapping the Medieval Woman(Tracy Chapman Hamilton and Mariah Proctor-Tiffany)

Histories of the architecture and urban landscape of medieval Paris have often concentrated on the impressive works of patronage of male rulers, for example Louis IX (1214–1270) and Charles V (1338–1380). But the paradigms we inherit are inflected with centuries of male-focused policies, histories, and social conceptions, often leading scholars to overlook or even erase women’s important contributions to the cityscape of Paris. This project seeks to undo this erasure and demonstrate that women, their bodies, their commissions, and their interactions were not only there, but were simply everywhere. It was not at all exceptional to see their marks on the urban landscape, their presence in work spaces, their bodies in processions in the streets, their tombs in the chapels of ecclesiastical spaces, and their generosity on display throughout the city. By mapping these sites, the many women patrons, workers, residents, and monastics come into view together.

This will be presented alongside EditionCrafter by Pamela Smith, Nicholas Laiacona, and Melissa Reynolds.

Register for this webinar series: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YKA6iAbyHFFBs3TJqujTaubv7bOSaUrEaAURHvJ04Bk/viewform?edit_requested=true