Women and Community in the Ancien Régime: Traditional and New Media

June 18-20, 2014
Conference
Barnard College Campus
Co-Sponsors: MARGOT

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Event Informaton

This three-day conference investigates how women participated in and contributed to different kinds of community in medieval and  early modern Europe. Featuring presentations based on texts and images in traditional manuscript and print format, as well as work that employs new technology and media projects, the conference will be interdisciplinary, and will consider the function and importance of female communities in the natural and social sciences, religion, literature, history, music, and fine arts. Sponsored by MARGOT, a long-term research project devoted to publishing fully searchable editions of either texts from the French Middle Ages and the Early Modern period.

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