Orgeluse and the Trial for Rape at the Court of King Arthur: Parzival 521, 19 to 529, 16
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“Salvation, Sex, and Subjectivity”
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Personal Memory, Collective Testimony and Masculinity in the Late Medieval Church Court of York
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Sex Difference in Medieval Theology and Canon Law: A Tribute to Joan Cadden
Meanings of Sex Difference draws on a very wide range of sources, cross- ing and re-crossing traditional boundaries between the disciplines. Joan Cadden also pays particular attention to the cultural and social milieux these sources were produced in; to the assumptions and expectations of authors and readers; to questions of form, style, and presentation.
The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi
The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi Tourage, Mahdi VARIORUM, Duke University Press Vol. 25, No. 3, (2005) Abstract Michel Foucault writes that…
“Lesbian-Like” and the Social History of Lesbianisms
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Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules as a Valentine Fable The Subversive Poetics of Feminine Desire
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Serpent of Pleasure: Emergence and Difference in the Medieval Garden of Love
Set apart from the normal realm of moral judgment, the medieval garden of love is usually seen as a site that embodies the carnal and reprehensible human desires that humans must renounce in order to find God.
Transgressing the Boundaries of Holiness: Sexual Deviance in the Early Medieval Penitential Handbooks of Ireland, England and France 500-1000
This study will take the form of a closer examination of smaller specific categories of deviance: the nocturnal emissions of clerics, sexual relations during menstruation and pregnancy, homosexuality, bestiality, incest, and adultery.
GENDER AND AUTHORITY IN THE MEDIEVAL FRENCH LAI MIRANDA GRIFFIN
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Nuns in the Public Sphere: Aelred of Rievaulx’s De Sanctimoniali de Wattun and the Gendering of Authority
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Difference and the Difference it Makes: Sex and Gender in Chaucer’s Poetry
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The Meanings of Devotional Space: Female Owner-Portraits in Three French and Flemish Books of Hours
I would argue that owner-portraits create a new textual space for women. Indeed, they are the means of a new way, not just of seeing women, but also of women seeing.
The Performance of Masculinity and Femininity: Gender Transgression in The Sowdone of Babylone
The Performance of Masculinity and Femininity: Gender Transgression in The Sowdone of Babylone Millar-Heggie, Bonnie MIRATOR LOKAKUU/OKTOBER/OCTOBER (2004) Abstract Judith Butler has observed…
Two Women and their Monumental Brass, c. 1480
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History Professor Publishes Groundbreaking Book on Monasticism and Gender
In Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West professor Lynda L. Coon, chair of the University of Arkansas’ department…
What Was Cross Dressing in the Middle Ages?
In the medieval period many jousts or tournaments, including helmets, armors, chest protections, etc were held and we have some reports about the tournaments where participants dressed in female garments. And this cross dressing seems to have carried no penalties at all.
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution By Claudio Da Soller PhD Dissertation, University of Missouri, 2005 Abstract: Literary portraits…
Natalie Zemon Davis: Why Gender and Women’s Studies Matter
Carla Hesse, Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California – Berkeley in conversation with renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis of the…
Study examines the same-sex relationships of Medieval Arab Women
A recent article suggests that lesbian activities of women in the medieval Arab world were far more common and open than is commonly believed, or would be considered acceptable in today’s Middle East.
Toleration and Repression within the Byzantine Family: Gender Problems
Toleration and Repression within the Byzantine Family: Gender Problems By Judith Herrin Toleration and repression in the Middle Ages (2002) Introduction: While the…
Mortality, Gender, and the Plague of 1361–2 on the Estate of the Bishop of Winchester
By any estimate the great pestilence of the late 1340s – the Black Death – was the most catastrophic of epidemics to strike Western Europe in the Middle Ages, apparently indiscriminate of age or sex.
‘An Entirely Masculine Activity’? Women and War in the High and Late Middle Ages Reconsidered
What if women did play a more significant part in military history than traditionally has been assumed?
Gender and the literate culture of late medieval England
Gender and the literate culture of late medieval England By Janine Rogers Thesis (Ph.D.)–McGill University, 1998 Abstract: This dissertation explores the impact of…
Commentary: Troubling “Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials and Joys of Marriage”
Commentary: Troubling “Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials and Joys of Marriage” Lee, Jongsook Medieval English Studies, vol. 11 (2003) No. 1…