University of Galway History Research Seminar: Gendered data in early medieval sources: Reflections from the Gendered Networks and GENCHRON projects

Dr Máirín MacCarron (University College Cork) 

Gendered data in early medieval sources: 

Reflections from the Gendered Networks and GENCHRON projects

Abstract

This paper will introduce and explain the development and analysis of gendered data in two of the presenter’s funded research projects: Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, 2018–2021) and Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900, GENCHRON (Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate grant, 2022–2026). It will discuss the representation of gender and gender statistics in a selection of sources from late antiquity and the early middle ages – works of history, hagiographies and chronicles – and in modern historiography. This paper will argue that data-driven approaches can allow historians to move past a reductive view of gendered roles and the place of women in medieval society.

Biography

Dr Máirín MacCarron was appointed to the Department of Digital Humanities at UCC in 2019. Prior to this role, she held posts in the Departments of History at the University of Galway and the University of Sheffield. She was awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021 for her book Bede and Time: computus, theology and history in the early medieval world (Routledge: London and New York, 2020). She is Principal Investigator of Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900 (GENCHRON) which runs from 2022–2026, funded by an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate Grant. She was Co-Investigator on the research project Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of Sheffield from 2018–2021; and she was Co-Investigator on the Digital Edgeworth Network funded by the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Networking Programme’ and jointly based at Cork and Oxford, from 2020–2021.

Registration

To attend via Zoom, please register at: https://forms.office.com/e/FDWKnekvcv

This is a hybrid event. The paper will be delivered in-person, in Room G010, Hardiman Research Building, University of Galway (ground floor) and livestreamed simultaneously on Zoom: https://universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/j/98639590634.

Seminars are not recorded.

Full Programme

A full programme for this semester’s seminars is available at: University_of_Galway_History_Seminar_2023-24_Semester_02.

This talk is part of the University of Galway History Seminar series.

Image: an image of a woman feeding hens from the apse mosaic of San Clemente in Rome.