Thursday 4th January 1996
1400-1600
- P.J.P. Goldberg (University of York) ‘Of Pigs and Prostitutes’
- Sheila Lindenbaum (Indiana University) ‘Women on Display: The Case of Eleanor Cobham’
- Sheila Sweetinburgh (University of Kent at Canterbury) ‘St John’s Hospital Sandwich: Gender and Discrimination in the Late Middle Ages’
1630-1830
- P.H. Cullum (University of Huddersfield) ‘Clergy, Masculinity and Transgression’
- Jane Gilbert (New Hall, Cambridge) ‘Gawain as Final Girl: Gender and Horror in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’
- RosalynnVoaden (St Anne’s College, Oxford) ‘I Did It My Way: Evasion, Avoidance and Outright Disobedience in the Writing of Medieval Women Visionaries
1930-2100
- Round table discussion on John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe, led by Ross Balzaretti (University of Nottingham)
Friday 5th January 1996
0900-1000
- Lesley Smith (Linacre College, Oxford) ‘Knowing their Place: Old Testament Women Transgressing their Gender?’
- Jan Palmer (University of York) ‘Neo-virgin and Proto-martyr: Judith and the Anglo-Saxons’
10-1030 Business Meeting
1100-1300
- John Arnold (University of York) ‘Subjectivity and the Performance of Gender in Inquisition Depositions’
- Felicity Jones (University of York) ‘Transgressing the Feminine? The Social, Ritual and Cultural Roles of Cathar Bonnes Femmes’
1400-1600
- Sarah Salih (University of East Anglia) ‘The Performance of Virginity’
- Antonia Ward (University of York) ‘Telltale Signs: The Performative Identities of the Canterbury Tales’
- Cate Knowles (King’s College London) ‘The Cup, the Glove and the Mantle: Testing for Chastity in two Middle High German Texts’
Organisers: Kim Phillips and Katherine Lewis