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Tuesday 26 April

12.00-1.00 Registration and Coffee The Undercroft

1.00-1.15 Welcome Old Class Library

1.15-2.45 Session 1: Transcending Their Sex? Women, Sanctity and Authority Old Class Library, Chair: Justine Firnhaber-Baker

Sanctity and Subversion: Transgressing Boundaries and Moulding Authority in Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries Deborah White (University of Glasgow)

Gendered Violence in Late Anglo-Saxon Hagiography: Rethinking the Sexualisation of Female Martyrs Niamh Kehoe (University College Cork)

The French Lives of St Martha: Holy Gender Transgression and imitatio Huw Grange (University of Oxford)

2.45-3.00 Short Break

3.00-4.00 Session 2: Strategies for Resolving Wrongs (PIMIC Sponsored Session) Old Class Library, Chair: Sarah Greer

Policing Morality: Flogging and Moral Transgression in the Carolingian Period Max McComb (Cornell University)

Violence, Wrong, and Justice in Eleventh-Century France Matt McHaffie (Kings College London)

4.00-4.30 Coffee Break The Undercroft

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4.30-6.00 Session 3: Keynote Lecture Old Class Library, Chair: John Hudson

Speakable Subjects? Gender, Heresy and Law in Late Antiquity Caroline Humfress (University of St Andrews)

6.00-7.00 Wine Reception (Sponsored by PIMIC) The Undercroft and Mediaeval History Garden

7.30 Informal Dinner

Wednesday 27 April

9.30-10.30 Session 4: What Makes a Monster? Old Class Library, Chair: Alex Woolf

‘ongeat þa se goda grundwyrgenne merewif mihtig’: Grendel’s Mother’s Transgression in Beowulf Alison Elizabeth Killilea (University College Cork)

Walkers between Worlds: Social Transgression and the Construction of Monstrosity in the Sagas of Icelanders Rebecca Merkelbach (University of Cambridge)

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break The Undercroft

11.00-12.30 Session 5: Keynote Lecture Old Class Library, Chair: James Palmer

Bad Bodies: Problems in Dynastic Reproduction from Fifth-Century Constantinople to Eleventh-Century Goslar Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow)

12.30-1.15 Lunch The Undercroft

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1.15-2.45 Tour of Medieval St Andrews Meet in the Undercroft, Led by Alex Woolf

2.45-3.00 Short Break

3.00-4.00 Session 6: Magic in the Margins Old Class Library, Chair: Tim Greenwood

Transgressive Reading: Retrieving the Textual Environment of the Old English Martyrology Fragment in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 Patricia O’Connor (University College Cork)

Under the Light of Venus: Transgressive Performativity in Medieval Arabic Occultism Liana Saif (University of Oxford)

4.00-4.30 Coffee Break The Undercroft

4.30-6.00 Session 7: Codes of Conduct (CMEMLL sponsored session) Old Class Library, Chair: Margaret Connolly

Burning Breasts: Grieving Mothers as Counsel-Givers in Old French and Anglo-Norman Literature Cory Hitt (University of St Andrews)

Gendered Codes of Conduct and the Dangers of Transgression Claudia Wittig (University of York)

Transgression, or Welsh Law? Aranrhod’s Unmaternal Behaviour in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi Re-examined Joan Marie Gallagher (University of Glasgow)

5.15-6.30 Wine Reception The Undercroft and Mediaeval History Garden

7.00 Conference Dinner

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Thursday 28 April

9.30-10.30 Session 8: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Old Class Library, Chair: Christine McGladdery

The Female Ancestors of Henry FitzEmpress and Skúli Bárðarson: Inherited Traits and Legitimisation of Succession Peter Lunga (University of Cambridge)

Transgressing Legal Boundaries: Female Landowners and Their Opportunities in Late Medieval Norway Susann Anett Pederson (Norwegian University of Technology and Science)

10.30-11.00 Coffee Break The Undercroft

11.00-12.00 Session 9: Model Women Old Class Library, Chair: Victoria Turner

Women in the Liber Pontificalis Adrián Viale (Université Paris 1 Panthéon – Sorbonne)

Exotic Femininity: Difference and Permission in the Saracen Princesses of Middle English Romance Jane Bonsall (University of Edinburgh)

12.00 Conference Ends

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Speaker Biographies

Dr Huw Grange is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the

University of Oxford where he is producing an edition of the Old

French ‘Dialogue between a Father and Son’. After completing his

PhD on Medieval French and Occitan literature at the University of

Cambridge, he held a teaching fellowship in Medieval French in

Oxford and postdoctoral posts with the University of Kent’s

Elucidarium Project (2012-14) and with the Medieval Francophone

Project (Cambridge/KCL/UCL) (2014-15). His book entitled Saints

and Monsters in Medieval French and Occitan Literature: Sublime

and Abject Bodies is going to be published by Legenda.

Dr Liana Saif is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the

Oriental Institute (University of Oxford). Her current project in

entitled "On the Margins of Orthodoxy: Magic in Medieval Islam".

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of magical practices

in medieval Islam (from pseudo-Hermetica to Aḥmad al-Bunī), their

cosmological frameworks, and the epistemological shifts that

transformed them. She is also interested in the intercultural

exchange of occult and esoteric ideas between the Islamic World

and Europe particularly in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Her book "The Arabic Influences on Early Modern Occult

Philosophy" was published in September last year.

Dr Matthew McHaffie joined Kings College London in September

2014 as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. His PhD thesis,

completed at the University of St Andrews, looked at lordship and

landholding in eleventh-century Anjou. His postdoctoral research

explores the functioning of seigneurial courts in eleventh and

twelfth-century north-western France. This project examines the

interaction between power and law, asking how lords used courts

to exercise power, and in what ways the exercise of seigneurial

power was limited by the court. He is currently preparing a

monograph provisionally entitled Violence and the 'Legal

Revolution': Law and Lordship in Eleventh-Century France.

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Keynote Speakers

Professor Caroline Humfress joined the School of History in

St Andrews in 2015, where she is the Deputy Director of the

Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, having previously

worked in the University of London (Birkbeck), the University of

Oxford and UC Berkeley. She is completing a monograph for

Oxford University Press, entitled Multi–legalism in Late Antiquity,

and has published extensively on legal history and theory, the

history of late antiquity, and the history of empires. She is currently

involved in two international research projects: the European

Commission funded ‘Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and

Christendom’ and ‘The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient

Law’.

Dr Stuart Airlie is a senior lecturer at the University of Glasgow.

He has published widely on the actors of Carolingian politics and

the structures in which they operated, and in 2012 a number of

these articles were collected together in the volume Power and its

Problems in the Carolingian Empire. He is currently writing a book,

which will be entitled Carolingian Politics which examines how the

Carolingian hegemony was maintained through the ninth century.

Dr Airlie is also a participant in the project ‘Powers and Institutions

in Medieval Islam and Christendom’. He is one of the editors of the

journal Gender & History.

Contact Information

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following institutions for their support:

School of History

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Centre for Medieval Law and Literature

Royal Historical Society

Powers and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom

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Gender and Transgression in the Middle Ages is a three-day interdisciplinary

conference for postgraduate and early career researchers hosted by the

St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies (SAIMS).

Conference Organisers: Ethan Birney, Sarah Greer, Lydia Hayes and Fran Murray.

Conference Programme designed and edited by Lili Bagyanszki.

Cover image: The first sin and the expulsion from the garden from Hortus Deliciarum by Herrade of Landsberg (folio 19) M0005753, Wellcome Library, London. CC BY 4.0.

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