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HeRstory

Holistic Research into the story of buildings, objects and people in the high medieval period of Ireland, Britain and France from a gendered perspective

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Project "HeRstory" data sheet

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Coordinator
THE UNIVERSITY OF READING 

Organization address
address: WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS WHITEKNIGHTS HOUSE
city: READING
postcode: RG6 6AH
website: http://www.rdg.ac.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Project website https://medievalcastlesandwomen.wordpress.com/
 Total cost 195˙454 €
 EC max contribution 195˙454 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2016
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-EF-ST
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-10-01   to  2019-09-30

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1    THE UNIVERSITY OF READING UK (READING) coordinator 195˙454.00

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 Project objective

Medieval archaeology has been strongly shaped by the predominance of male-biased perspectives within academia and the modern world. Castle studies in particular is a very male-dominated discipline with out-dated approaches which reproduce exclusively male-centred interpretations, thereby resulting in an impoverished understanding of how people interacted within these spaces. This study seeks to address this problem by taking a more human centred approach which reveals long ignored nuances in social practices. This will be achieved by examining the architecture, material culture (buildings and objects) and historical record of high medieval period England, Ireland and Normandy (1066-1398). HeRstory aims, through deep contextual analysis, to highlight how the material culture of this period both constructed and reinforced gendered roles in medieval society. This will challenge current perspectives in this area of medieval archaeology which imposes typical masculine views into the medieval past such as an exclusive focus on power/status or the tendency to predominantly view this era through the lens of warfare. For the first time, these new understandings of what it was like to be a woman or man in a medieval castle will be revealed. These new perspectives can be extrapolated outwards to achieve nuanced comprehensions of this time period which are far more inclusive/cognisant of gender constructs. This research challenges existing patriarchal and unilinear understandings of the medieval world by providing an insight into how people lived in and interacted with their environments such as the access to and position of rooms within the castle as well as the personal objects that surrounded them. In particular, this research significantly enhances our understandings of gender identities in Europe during this period. By moving to Reading's Dept. of Archaeology and working with Prof. Gilchrist, the researcher will significantly enhance her skillset and career.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2019 Karen Dempsey, Roberta Gilchrist, Jeremy Ashbee, Stefan Sagrott, Samantha Stones
Beyond the martial façade: gender, heritage and medieval castles
published pages: 1-18, ISSN: 1352-7258, DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2019.1636119
International Journal of Heritage Studies 2020-03-23
2019 Karen Dempsey
Gender and medieval archaeology: storming the castle
published pages: 772-788, ISSN: 0003-598X, DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.13
Antiquity 93/369 2020-03-23
2020 Karen Dempsey
Planting new ideas: a feminist gaze on medieval castles
published pages: , ISSN: 2491-844x, DOI:
Chateau Gaillard 29 29 2020-03-23
2021 Karen Dempsey and Caroline Teng
\'Medieval Women: Archaeological Tales of the Unexpected\'
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI:
2020-03-23
2018 John Baker, Nicola Sharatt, Della Hooke, Roger White, Susan Kilby, Nigel J. Tringham, Chris Briggs, Richard Hoggett, Terry Slater, Bob Silvester, Della Hooke, Karen Dempsey, John S. Lee, Paul Stamper, Peter Gaunt, Angus J. L. Winchester, Della Hooke
Reviews
published pages: 121-140, ISSN: 0143-3768, DOI: 10.1080/01433768.2018.1466553
Landscape History 39/1 2020-03-23
2019 Karen Dempsey
Reviews
published pages: 191-231, ISSN: 0076-6097, DOI: 10.1080/00766097.2019.1601914
Medieval Archaeology 63/1 2020-03-23
2020 Karen Dempsey
Tending the ‘Contested’ Castle Garden: sowing seeds of feminist thought
published pages: , ISSN: 0959-7743, DOI:
Cambridge Archaeological Journal 31/1 2020-03-23

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