Extremes of Grief: the Lamenting Woman in Old Irish Literature (Cambridge Festival of Ideas)

https://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/extremes-grief-lamenting-woman-old-irish-literature

Prejudice against women remains a central concern today, and the Middle Ages are often viewed as the epitome of such attitudes. But a closer study of the literature of the time can challenge these stereotyped assumptions and shed light on gender issues still relevant a thousand years later.