Word of Mouth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work

口碑相传：前现代女性在工作中的具体故事

• 批准号: AH/Z505754/1
• 负责人: Alison Beach
• 金额: $ 170.66万
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FZ505754%2F1
• 关键词: Word; Mouth; Embodied; Stories; Premodern

Woman, or Master? What can new evidence for skilled craft and artistic production in premodern Europe reveal about women's work and health?In 2019, PI Alison Beach and International Co-I Anita Radini were part of an interdisciplinary team that identified a medieval female artist from her skeletal remains for the very first time using cutting-edge techniques in bioarchaeology, upending common assumptions about the role of women in art [1]. In this extraordinary collaboration, Beach's expert historical work on book production linked the repeated gestures of a medieval artist to Radini's bioarchaeological data. The remarkable response to this discovery of a religious woman with lapis lazuli pigment in her dental calculus reflects the enormous academic and public interest in this line of research. The original article in Science Advances has been downloaded over 9,000 times, and the team's collaborative work was selected as one of the Top Ten Discoveries of 2019 by Archaeology Magazine. The image of a medieval woman shaping her pigment-suffused paintbrush with her lips has also inspired several novels and even a sonnet, The Artist, by the award-winning poet Erin Redfern. "Let's ask her," Redfern proposes. "Are you Woman, or Master?" Given voice through the combined power of the humanities and science, she answers: I was both - woman and master.By extending this powerful partnership between historians and archaeological scientists, we will give voice to other premodern European women, and through the multivocality of our own cross-disciplinary approaches, provide novel and nuanced insights into their lived experiences. The proposed project will recover, contextualise, and synthesise their stories, providing an unprecedentedly fine-grained picture of women's work and occupational health in monastic contexts. Moving between the library and laboratory, we will integrate historical research with cutting-edge analysis of human remains, experimental archaeology, and materials analysis to transform the way we see women in the European past.With an integrated multiscalar approach, we will seek to answer the following primary research questions:RQ1. In what skilled craft and artistic activities did women in premodern religious communities engage?RQ2. What impact did work have on the bodies and health of these religious women?RQ3. Did the socio-cultural context of religious women determine their participation/lack thereof in particular activities? What impact did inequalities among women have on their health?In asking and answering these questions, we will challenge gendered narratives about the nature and scope of the artistic and economic activities of premodern women (objective of RQ1); discern the physical traces left by craft and artistic labour from those left by religious labour (e.g., extensive kneeling in prayer) (objective of RQ2); and evaluate the evidence for social inequality among religious women, both prior to entry and within the religious community, and the impact of those inequalities on health (objective of RQ3).[1] Radini et al. (2019). Medieval women's early involvement in manuscript production suggested by lapis lazuli identification in dental calculus. Science Advances 5 (1).

女人，还是师父？前现代欧洲的熟练工艺和艺术生产的新证据可以揭示有关女性工作和健康的哪些信息？2019 年，PI Alison Beach 和国际 Co-I Anita Radini 组成的跨学科团队从一位中世纪女性艺术家的遗骸中鉴定出了她的身份首次在生物考古学中使用尖端技术，颠覆了关于女性在艺术中的角色的普遍假设[1]。在这次非凡的合作中，比奇在书籍制作方面的专业历史工作将中世纪艺术家的重复手势与拉迪尼的生物考古数据联系起来。一位宗教妇女的牙结石中含有青金石色素，这一发现引起了非凡的反响，反映了学术界和公众对这一研究领域的巨大兴趣。 《Science Advances》上的原创文章下载量已超过 9000 次，该团队的合作成果被《考古学》杂志评选为 2019 年十大发现之一。中世纪女性用嘴唇塑造沾满颜料的画笔的形象也为多部小说甚至获奖诗人艾琳·雷德芬 (Erin Redfern) 创作的十四行诗《艺术家》提供了灵感。 “我们去问问她吧，”雷德芬提议道。 “你是女人，还是主人？”通过人文学科和科学的综合力量发出声音，她回答道：我既是女人又是大师。通过扩大历史学家和考古学家之间的强大伙伴关系，我们将为其他前现代欧洲女性发出声音，并通过我们的多声性自己的跨学科方法，为他们的生活经历提供新颖而细致的见解。拟议的项目将恢复、背景化和综合她们的故事，提供关于修道院背景下妇女工作和职业健康的前所未有的精细画面。在图书馆和实验室之间移动，我们将历史研究与人类遗骸的前沿分析、实验考古学和材料分析相结合，以改变我们看待欧洲过去女性的方式。通过综合的多标量方法，我们将寻求答案主要研究问题如下：RQ1．前现代宗教社区中的妇女从事哪些熟练的手工艺和艺术活动？RQ2。工作对这些宗教女性的身体和健康有什么影响？RQ3。宗教妇女的社会文化背景是否决定了她们参与/不参与特定活动？女性之间的不平等对她们的健康有什么影响？在提出和回答这些问题时，我们将挑战关于前现代女性艺术和经济活动的性质和范围的性别叙事（RQ1 的目标）；辨别手工艺和艺术劳动留下的物理痕迹与宗教劳动留下的痕迹（例如，广泛跪下祈祷）（RQ2 的目标）；评估宗教妇女在进入宗教社区之前和内部的社会不平等的证据，以及这些不平等对健康的影响（RQ3 的目标）。 [1]拉迪尼等人。 （2019）。牙结石中的青金石鉴定表明中世纪妇女早期参与手稿制作。科学进展 5 (1)。