This conference, to be held in Fortaleza del Sol, including two conferences and six papers, plus the XXIV General Assembly of the Spanish Society for Medieval Studies.
The Councillors of Culture and the City University of Lorca, Rosa Medina and José Joaquín Peñarrubia, along with the director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Murcia, Juan Francisco Jiménez, Lorca host announced that on Thursday the International Congress of Women in the Middle Ages, organized by the Spanish Society for Medieval Studies, which Jimenez is secretary.
Medina explained that "this meeting, in which more than fifty experts, held from 16 to 18 March, with the Museo de Bellas Artes Murcia host the opening day, the Archaeological Museum of Murcia place chosen for the closure and Fortaleza del Sol framework for developing the central time, at its morning session will be open to all citizens. "
Specifically, this Thursday the professor of the University of Málaga M ª Teresa López Beltrán taught at 10:30 am in the castle of Lorca's lecture "The Family, Women and reforestation in the Kingdom of Granada", after which will follow the teacher University of Bordeaux Charageat Martine, who will speak on "Women and marital conflict in the late Middle Ages in Aragon.
The morning session will conclude with six papers: "Women across the Valencian wills", by Dolores Guillot Aliaga, "The Sarmiento: Women in power at the end of the Middle Ages", at the hands of Miguel Garcia Fernandez, "Filipa and Catherine of Lancaster and as negociações gives peace of 1411 between Portugal and Castela" Santa Manuela Silva, "Queenship: Theory and Practice of the exercise of power in the Spanish Middle Ages", by Diana Pelaz Flores; "The issue of female authorship in the Middle Ages" developed by Casanova Valdaliso Covadonga and "dowry and arras Conflict in Late Medieval Castile," which will be hosted by Robert J.
González Zalacain.
In the afternoon the members of the Spanish Society for Medieval Studies held its XXIV General Assembly and a visit to the fortress of "Lorca Taller del Tiempo."
Peñarrubia stated that "the conclusion of this meeting in our castle is determined by the importance of the history of medieval Lorca, which led us to create during this term of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Murcia, located in our city ".
The autonomous region is one of the organizers of the event, which also involved the Consolidated Research Group on Medieval Studies Space, power and culture at the University of Lleida.
Papers will be reviewed by the scientific committee for final publication in the number 3 Monograph of the Spanish Society for Medieval Studies, so we will select some communication to that effect.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca