Description
Online seminar as part of a six-week course on 'Medieval Women' for the British Library's Adult Learning Online. My seminar was the last in a series of six. 135 participants. positive feedback in the Teams chat at the end of the session.The Welsh poet Gwerful Mechain (c.1460-1502) wrote some of the most unusual poetry to survive from the Middle Ages. She wrote the kind of religious verse common to her era - the late fifteenth century - but she also wrote about topics that few, if any, medieval women writers discussed: unambiguous sexual desire, bodily functions, domestic violence. Her work circulated in manuscript form for centuries, but upon being rediscovered in the twentieth century, it was long dismissed as profane, and excluded from poetry anthologies and textbooks.
| Period | 17 Feb 2025 |
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| Held at | The British Library, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Degree of Recognition | National |
Keywords
- women's poetry
- gender
- Gwerful Mechain
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Beyond Borders: Women Poets in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales up to c. 1500
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Problems of Authorship and Attribution: The Welsh-Language Women's Canon Before 1800
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Beirdd Ceridwen: Blodeugerdd Barddas o Ganu Menywod hyd tua 1800
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Spaces of experience and horizons of expectation: the implications of extreme weather events, past, present and future
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