Lecture 1
Topic: The Imagination and Construction of Body: Holy Women’s Body Concept in Prosperous Age of Medieval Western Europe
Lecturer: Prof. Wang Li-hong
Host: Prof. Li Hua-cheng (Executive director, Research Center of Social History of Medicine)
Time: 10:00 am—12:00 am
Date: 2016-6-22（Wed.）
Venue: Room 602, Building Wenyuan, Chang’an Campus
Hosted by: School of History and Civilization
Abstract：
Awareness and discovery of body indicates the birth of modern society, thus the Renaissance period is often defined as the starting point by body history researchers. However, if we trace back to Medieval Western Europe from this perspective, we can also find a group of holy women showed great interest on body in 11 ~ 13 century. Prof. Wang will “reappear” holy women’s cognitive on body with images, and their trying to get rid of the eve image under male religious discourse disciplined, as well as the meaning of how to re-construct female body.
Lecture 2
Topic: The Illusion and Mysticism of Body: Holy Women’s Body Cognition in Prosperous Age of Medieval Western Europe
Lecturer: Prof. Wang Li-hong
Host: Prof. Li Hua-cheng (Executive director, Research Center of Social History of Medicine)
Time: 19:00 pm—21:00 pm
Date: 2016-6-22（Wed.）
Venue: Room 602, Building Wenyuan, Chang’an Campus
Hosted by: School of History and Civilization
Abstract：
By analyzing the public performance nature through holy women’s mysterious illusion, Prof. Wang will explain the specificity of their illusion and their contribution to illusion in the middle and late period of middle ages, as well as "reappear" holy women’s efforts to obtain identity based on body.
Lecture 3
Topic: Differences and Cooperation: Women’s Religious Writing in the Middle and Late Period of Middle Ages
Lecturer: Prof. Wang Li-hong
Host: Prof. Li Hua-cheng (Executive director, Research Center of Social History of Medicine)
Time: 10:00 am—12:00 am
Date: 2016-6-23（Thur.）
Venue: Room 602, Building Wenyuan, Chang’an Campus
Hosted by: School of History and Civilization
Abstract：
As effective analysis tools, feminism and sexism have excellent achievements in the Medieval Western Europe study, but also leads to over emphasis on sexual antagonism, thus ignores bisexual cooperation in the real society inadvertently or deliberately. Prof. Wang will reappear women’s religious writing in the middle and late period of Middle Ages, investigate gender cooperative phenomena and explore their own cognition of writing.
Profile of Prof. Wang Li-hong：
Dr. Wang, graduated from Fudan University, is a professor at College of Humanities, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Representative works include Holy Women’s Body Concept and Identity in Prosperous Age of Medieval Western Europe (Historical Research); Development of Nun Regulations in Medieval Western Europe: Discussion on St. Clair Repair Compliance, Ciro Dodd the Barbarian: Analysis of Gregory's Historical Narrative Ethics (Journal of Fudan University). Salic Law and Frank Early Society (History Teaching and Research). Famous works: Knights: Western European Noble Battled with Song; College World History.
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