Medieval Mediterranean Women
Project summary
Power of gender, gender of power: women, queenship and
historiographical discourse in Mediterranean geographies
(CEECIND/00220/2017) aims at identifying,studying, and
divulging - through an online database, articles and media
- the origins, developments and transmission of
narratives, formulas and references to female power in
historiography and charters written between the 10th and
the 14th centuries. It will focus on the comparative study
of texts produced in two Mediterranean regions: the Iberian Peninsula and the lands of Western Islam.
A comparative approach to distinct but close cultural and literary traditions will serve as the base to rethink typologies of the power of women that go beyond the concept of "queenship".
QUEENSHIP
John Carmi Parsons (ed), Medieval Queenship. St. Martins Press, 1994.
Theresa Earenfight, Queenship in Medieval Europe. Palgrave, 2013.
Attila Bárány, "Medieval Queens and Queenship: A Retrospective on Income and Power", ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU, 19 (2013) 149-200.
Christopher Mielke, “Out Flies the Web and Floats Wide: Multi-disciplinary Possibilities in Queenship Studies", ANNUAL OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES AT CEU, 19 (2013) 201-216.
Elena Woodacre, Queenship in the Mediterranean: Negotiating the Role of the Queen in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras. Palgrave, 2013.
S. Maclean, Ottonian queenship. Oxford UP.
KINGSHIP
A. el-Azmeh, Muslim Kingship. Tauris, 1997.
BIOGRAPHIES
M. Shadis, Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages. Palgrave, 2010.
J. Herrin, Women in Purple. Rulers of Medieval Byzantium. Princeton UP, 2002.
WOMEN AND POWER
M. Erler, M. Kowaleski (ed), Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Cornell UP, 2003.
J. Gomes, "The female character of the Lenda da Condessa Traidora....", in Il mondo a la rovescia: Potere delle donne visto dagli uomini, S. Luraghi (ed.), Milano, F. Angeli, 2009, 65-70.
J. Gomes, As Condessas traidoras e a terra de Espanha. MA thesis, 2007.
J. Gomes, O rei na escrita: as múltiplas faces de Afonso VI (XI-XII). PhD thesis, 2017.
R. Ferreira, "Entre conselho e incesto...." e-Spania, 12, 2011, http://journals.openedition.org/e-spania/20879.
R. Ferreira, "La reine est morte...," e-Spania, 17, 2014, http://journals.openedition.org/e-spania/23433.
M.A. Kelleher, "What do we mean by Women and Power?", MFF: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality, 51-2 (2015) 104-115, http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/vol51/iss2/11.
R. Ferreira, "Teresa e Urraca: o paradigma perdido", in In Marsupiis peregrinorum: circulacion de textos e imagenes alderedor del camino de Santiago en la Edad Media, CORRAL (ed), Firenze, SDEFR, 201-214.
E. Klinka, "Entre hermanos: la difícil sucesión de Fernando I". in Pacto y consenso en la cultura política peninsular: siglos XI-XV, J. Nieto Soria – O. Villarroel González (ed), 2013, 43-63.
G. Martin, Mujeres y poderes en la España medieval. A. Henares, CEC, 2011.
B. Hill, Imperial Women in Byzantium 1025-1200 (...), Routledge, 1999.
WOMEN POWER IN THE ISLAMICATE WORLD
D. Spellberg, Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'Aisha Bint Abi Bakr. Columbia UP, 1994.
F. Mernissi, Sultanes oubliées: Femmes chefs d'Etat en Islam. Albin Michel, 1990.
U. Kahhālah, A`lam al-nisa' fi `alamay al-`Arab wa-al-Islam. Beirut, Ed. al-Risalah, 1977.
THEORY
E. Schusser-Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. Crossroad PC, 1994 (1983).
P. Ricoeur, Le Conflit des interprétations. Essais d'herméneutique I, Le Seuil, 1969.
A. Weiner, Inalienable Possessions. California UP, 1992.
WRITING
A. Arizaleta, Les Clercs au palais: Chancellarie et écriture du povoir royal. Les livres d' e-Spania, SEMH-Sorbonne, 2010.
RELEVANT PROJECTS
Proyecto Al-Andalus, los Reinos Hispanos y Egipto: arte, poder y conocimiento en el Mediterráneo medieval (HAR2013-45578-R). http://www.ucm.es/al-andalus-reinos-hispanos-y-egipto/presentacion-del-proyect
Munarqas. Mujeres de las monarquías ibericas