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
“[C]ritical reflection on spatial concepts and categories, together with the attempt to lay bare their ideological assumptions, are much more recent developments within medievalism. This reconceptualization contributes both to the ongoing interrogation of the disciplinary foundations of medieval studies and to the critical engagement with trends in other area of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The interplay between postcolonial and medieval studies provide just one example of the way in which medievalists have used space and place as the means to reposition themselves in relation to the past and the future of their discipline.” Julian Weiss and Sarah Salih (eds), ‘Introduction’ to Locating the Middle Ages: The Spaces and Places of Medieval Culture (London, 2012), pp. xv-xvi.