Roundtable discussion: Marriages, Unmarriages, and Subjectivities
The Oxford Medieval Society invites all interested parties to attend the event on Thursday 26 May at 13:00-14.30, in the New Seminar Room in St John’s College. Participants will be able to ask questions and engage in discussion with Professor McDougall and Professor Skoda on a shared area of their research, Marriages, Unmarriages, and Subjectivities.
Professor Sara McDougall is Associate Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York) and coordinator of the Medieval Studies Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Specialising in legal history, her research focuses primarily on women and crime in medieval France and explores topics such as gender, marriage, religion and illegitimacy. Her publications include Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230 (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012). Professor McDougall is in Oxford this term as an Astor Visiting Lecturer.
Dr Hannah Skoda is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval History at St John’s College, Oxford, and specialises in the cultural and social history of the later Middle Ages. She has particular interests in education, conflict, ownership, slavery and constructions of deviance in late medieval Europe. Her monograph Medieval Violence: Physical Brutality in Northern France, 1270-1330 (Oxford University Press, 2013) won the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship’s 2014 Best First Book Prize, in which year she was also awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize to explore nostalgia in the fourteenth century.
Date:
26 May 2022, 13:00 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2022)
Venue:
St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details:
New Seminar Room
Speakers:
Professor Sara McDougall (University of New York),
Dr Hannah Skoda (St John's College, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
oxfordmedievalsociety@gmail.com
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
