Publications and conferences
Publications
- Máirín MacCarron, Emily Quigley, 'Female Voices and Universal History', in H. Inglebert, D. Miano, M. Staub, J. Thornton, S. P. Vidal (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Universal History Writing (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025). Available here.
- Máirín MacCarron, 'Historical Chronology in the Early Middle Ages: the Venerable Bede's innovation and influence', Il Tempo nell'alto Medioevo (Time in the early middle ages), (Spoleto: CISAM, 2024).
- Máirín MacCarron, Joanna Story, ‘The recapitulation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica', in Sören Kaschke and Bart van Hees (eds), Annals in Carolingian Europe. A genre in motion (Berlin: De Gruyter, at press)
Conferences
Sponsor of one panel at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2025: 'Time for Women? Gender, Chronology, and Historiography before 900'
- Máirín MacCarron, 'What is GENCHRON?: Analysing Gender and Chronology in Early Medieval Sources'
- Emily Quigley, 'Dynasty, Power, and Piety: The Roles of Women in World Chronicles before 900'
- Jana Šmirinová, 'Network Visualisation of GENCHRON'
Sponsor of one panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2025: 'Time for Women? Gender, Chronology, and Historiography before 900'
- Máirín MacCarron, 'Gender Representation in Early Medieval Chronicles and Narrative Sources'
- Emily Quigley, 'Dynasty, Power, and Piety: The Roles of Women in World Chronicles before 900'
- Jana Šmirinová, 'Visualizing Gender in Historical Social Networks'
Papers by members of the project team
- Máirín MacCarron, 'Are Women Out of Time?' Pint of Science, Cork, 20 May 2025.
- Jana Šmirinová, 'Data Visualisation in GENCHRON', The Digital Arts & Humanities Research Colloquium, University College Cork, 27 November 2024.
- Emily Quigley, 'Women and time in the ancient world: classical women in world chronicles before AD 900', Classical Association of Ireland, Cork, 5 November 2024.
- Máirín MacCarron, 'The Day in the Thought of the Venerable Bede', International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 3 July 2024.
- Jana Šmirinová, 'Visualising Gendered Network Data', CACSSS Postgraduate Research Conference, University College Cork, 22 February 2024.
- Máirín MacCarron, 'Gendered Data in early medieval sources: Reflections from the Gendered Networks and GENCHRON projects', History Research Seminar, University of Galway, 10 January 2024.
- Máirín MacCarron, ‘Queen Osthryth of Mercia in secular and ecclesiastical networks’, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 5 July 2023.
- Máirín MacCarron, ‘Universal and national history in Bede’s world chronicles’, Universal Chronicles in the Middle Ages, Medium Ævum: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures, University of Chester, 1 July 2023.
- Máirín MacCarron, ‘Historical Chronology in the Early Middle Ages: the Venerable Bede’s innovation and influence,’ Il Tempo nell’alto Medioevo (Time in the early Middle Ages), Centro Italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo (CISAM), Spoleto, 14 April 2023.
Our outputs
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Book chapter |
Book chapter | 2025 |
Female Voices and Universal History |
The male nature of universal history writing in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages leaves little space for the female voice. Indeed, the combination of explicitly male chronological systems and male writers is a significant factor in the extent to which women are underrepresented in world chronicles and narrative sources from this period. A statistical analysis of a selection of chronicles, histories, and hagiographies has revealed that female representation in most sources is under 10 per cent of the total population. However, these poor results may indicate that the featured women are of disproportionate importance. In examining the representation of women such as the legendary queen Semiramis, we can identify faint glimpses of the realities of women’s lives and hints at the existence of a female voice. | More details Read publication |