Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0346801

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0346801

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Literary Self-Awareness and Parental Love: Challenging Alterity in Contemporary Medieval Studies. Did medieval women write about themselves as gendered individuals? Did medieval parents love their children? Despite both popular and academic opinion to the contrary, this project aims to demonstrate that these propositions are true. By studying the self-aware writings of Latin-literate medieval women and medieval parent-child advice-texts, this project aims to challenge the alterity, or otherness, of the Middle Ages, a concept which suggests that medieval people are fundamentally unlike us. In doing so, it questions the significance of alterity in the construction and practices of contemporary Medieval Studies and offers insights into possible new methodologies for the discipline.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-01-2003

End Date: 05-01-2006

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $204,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Literary Studies | History: Other | Textual Transmission And The Material Record |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other

Other Keywords

History: Other | Literary Studies | Other | Textual Transmission And The Material Record

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