Tuesday 3 November 2026 – Máirín MacCarron (Cork): Women and Time: a data-driven analysis of the Latin World Chronicle tradition circa 4th to 8th centuries

This seminar is 17:30 pm – 19:00 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/93737809026, later posted to our YouTube channel.

Session chair: TBC

Abstract: This paper will report on the findings of the Research Ireland-funded research project, ‘Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900’ (GENCHRON). It will introduce the project’s approach, explain our data model, and outline our data-driven methodology. The central sections of the paper will share results from our investigation of gender representation in a selection of Latin world chronicles from Jerome’s translation of Eusebius’s Chronicon in the late fourth century to Bede’s second chronicle contained in his On the Reckoning of Time (De temporum ratione c. 66) from AD 725.

Bio: Máirín MacCarron is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at University College Cork. Prior to this role, she held positions in the Departments of History at the Universities of Sheffield and Galway. She is Principal Investigator of the Research Ireland Consolidator Laureate ‘Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900’ (GENCHRON), and her monograph Bede and Time: Computus, Theology and History in the Early Medieval World (Routledge, 2020) won the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021.