Queens and Elite women in the Atlantic Archipelago, c.850-1050: a Comparative Perspective
Queens and elite women in medieval Europe have been the subject of significant scholarly attention over the last decade or so, and much of this scholarship has made it clear that women exercising significant political, social and cultural power were not exceptions, but part of the matrix of political culture in much of medieval Europe.
[ When
to
o Where
online
-
8 Remote access
Not available
£ Cost
Free
É Contact
email: historyevents@uhi.ac.uk
à Add to Calendar
q Share
While English queens and elite women have been very much part of this conversation, the elite women of the rest of the Atlantic archipelago have been rather left out. This paper, and the wider project of which it is a part seeks to bring the elite women of Britain and Ireland into an explicitly comparative frame, notwithstanding the significant disparity in both the quantity and texture of the sources available across the Insular world.
Dr Charles Insley has been a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Manchester since 2012, having held posts at Canterbury Christ Church, Northampton and Bangor Universities since 1995. He was head of the History Department at Manchester between 2018 and 2021.
Dr Insley studied for his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford, receiving his doctorate in 1998 for a thesis on the pre-Norman Conquest archive of Exeter Cathedral. He is a historian of the Atlantic Archipelago in the earlier Middle Ages, ca. 800-1100 and has published widely on aspects of English and Welsh history during that period. His current interests centre on a comparative study of queens and elite women in the Atlantic Archipelago during the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries.
Privacy
Please read our policy on how we treat any personal information collected in relation to our events:
Data Protection Statement for Events