Women’s agency from medieval Catalonia to the Antilles in the Age of Revolution

This meeting will consist of a group discussion of the following two articles, which will be pre-circulated:

- Alexandra Guerson and Dana Wessel Lightfoot, ‘A tale of two Tolranas: Jewish women’s agency and conversion in late medieval Girona’, Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies (2020)

- Rebecca J. Scott and Carlos Venegas Fornias, ‘María Coleta and the Capuchin Friar: Slavery, Salvation, and the Adjudication of Status’, William and Mary Quarterly (2019)

The authors of one of the two articles, Alexandra Guerson (University of Toronto) and Dana Wessel Lightfoot (University of Northern British Columbia) will participate in the meeting.