While most of her subjects are Leon's subjects are European, she also discusses women from Japan, China, India, South America, North America and Africa. Leon covers a wide variety of women, from laundresses to queens. Since we are trying to get a critical manuscript for an edited volume, we are proposing this session for several conferences, although in different formats.UPPITY WOMEN OF MEDIEVAL TIMES deals with women who would not conform to their society's expectations. We are also considering organising panels at Leeds International Medieval Congress (IMC) and the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP).
Our two panels are titled "Assertive Medieval Women Across the Globe I" and "Assertive Medieval Women Across the Globe II (A Virtual Roundtable)." The deadline for abstract submission on the congress website is the 15th of September 2022. We are having online and face-to-face sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS). Please email your 200-word abstract and a 100-word biography to Anita Obermeier ( and to Doaa Omran ( by the 10th of September 2022. Reading the Middle Ages from a broader vantage point that illustrates how women worldwide were facing comparable experiences and challenges helps us understand the Middle Ages and feminism through a new lens. Comparative perspectives that trace similar experiences are highly encouraged. In an attempt to break new ground, we seek contributions that explore uppity medieval women––both historical and fictional–– from global perspectives.
Uppity medieval women transgress their patriarchally assigned positions of immanence, often with the pen, the sword, and through sex.
As the field of Medieval Studies has been taking a global turn, this proposal seeks to put European uppity women into a deeper and more substantial conversation with their global sisters, such as the Japanese Lady Murasaki Shikibu, the Indian Nur Jahan, the Nigerian Queen Amina, and the Arabic Walladabint al-Mustakfi, to name a few. In 1998, Vicki Leon published Uppity Women of Medieval Times, providing brief vignettes of primarily European medieval women fitting the description. International Congress on Medieval Studies (Michigan USA hybrid), and other potential conferences
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