Women in Power, Powerful Women: Medieval and Early Modern Insights

The symposium considers medieval and early modern women's exercise of formal and informal power in domestic, religious, economic, political and public spaces. It explores how women wielded power in quotidian life and through rituals, objects and creative practices. Focusing on the interplay between gender and authority, it aims to tease out the mechanisms by which women accessed power, how they used it and the significance of emotion in these processes.

Host or Publisher University of Adelaide, Society for the History of Emotions