My apologies for cross-posting.
36th International Congress
on Medieval Studies, 3-6 May 2001
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo Michigan
SPECIAL SESSION ON "NEW RESEARCH ON PEASANT WOMEN"
The peasant woman in medieval Europe seems to have played a double role in
her community: she was responsible for any activity related to household
and child rearing duties, at the same time working outside the house,
mainly in agriculture. Her double role granted her access to the exterior
as well as the interior space in her rural community and, in a sense, made
her the receptacle of popular culture.
We welcome papers dealing with the various aspects of rural women as
bearers of collective memory expressed in rituals and customs both
Christian and pagan, in the healing arts, in midwivery, in knowledge passed
on to their daughters, in proverbs and mottos etc. We also welcome studies
on the literary or artistic representations of such activities.
Please address any questions or your 200-word abstract by mail, e-mail, or
fax to:
Christine McWebb
Assistant Professor
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
Arts Bldg. 200
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB
T6G 0C2
Fax: 1-780-4920-9106
e-mail: cmcwebb@ualberta.ca
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Christine McWebb
Assistant Professor
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Bldg.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E6
Canada
T.: (780) 492-9032 Fax: (790) 492-9106
e-mail: cmcwebb@ualberta.ca
"Modern Languages and Cultural Studies" Home Page
http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/MLCS/
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