Medieval heresy as a space for liberation? Investigating the
association of verbs with gendered actants in registers of the
medieval inquisition

k 2023

Medieval heresy as a space for liberation? Investigating the association of verbs with gendered actants in registers of the medieval inquisition

KOTZÉ, Gideon and David ZBÍRAL

Basic information

Original name

Medieval heresy as a space for liberation? Investigating the association of verbs with gendered actants in registers of the medieval inquisition

Authors

KOTZÉ, Gideon and David ZBÍRAL

Edition

67th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, 15-18 June 2023, The Republic of South Africa, 2023

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

conference website

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords (in Czech)

ženy aktérky; genderovaný jazyk; lingvistika; latina; inkviziční záznamy

Keywords in English

male and female agency; gendered language; linguistics; Latin; inquisition records

Abstract

V originále

Corpus research on verbs connected to gendered actants (persons or groups) can reveal patterns of interaction indicative of either the gendered character of human actions or, often, gender stereotypes of writers. Language can also reveal challenging the assigned gender roles and involvement in political or religious dissent. To inquire into what indications language provides of challenging gender stereotypes, we look into Latin-language medieval inquisition records from heresy trials and study differences between male and female agency. In an attempt to empirically test Marxist accounts of medieval heresy as a space for comparative liberation of the suppressed, we focus on medieval women, whose access to some institutions and resources in medieval Christianity was limited, and look at the gendered patterns of agency as signalled by the verbs.

Links

101000442, interní kód MU

Name: Networks of Dissent: Computational Modelling of Dissident and Inquisitorial Cultures in Medieval Europe (Acronym: DISSINET)

Investor: European Union, ERC (Excellent Science)

Citovat

KOTZÉ, Gideon and David ZBÍRAL. Medieval heresy as a space for liberation? Investigating the association of verbs with gendered actants in registers of the medieval inquisition. In 67th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, 15-18 June 2023, The Republic of South Africa. 2023.

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