SMFS promotes the study of the Patristic Age, the Middle Ages, and the Early Modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies. It actively promotes and supports interdisciplinary exchanges at all levels of higher education across the world. Members represent every continent and every academic discipline within the arts & humanities.
02/21/2013
Announcements
"While women have traditionally been excluded from histories of medieval culture, recent attempts to include them have all too often emphasized the spiritual rather than the intellectual, presenting their participation as marginal rather than mainstream. As the Hortus [Deliciarum] makes abundantly clear, some women were thoroughly interested and implicated in the 'elite' and 'masculinist' cultures of the twelfth century; like Herrad [of Hohenbourg], they ought to be understood as intellectuals and reformers in their own right."Fiona J. Griffiths, The Garden of Delights: Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007), p. 23.