Medievalists.net » Incest http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Raymund’s Daughter’s Divorce in the 9th-Century: a Woman’s Textual Role in the Breaking of an Alliance http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/raymunds-daughters-divorce-9th-century-womans-textual-role-breaking-alliance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/raymunds-daughters-divorce-9th-century-womans-textual-role-breaking-alliance/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2014 23:57:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54340 This chapter will analyse an aspect of one of the divorce cases of the mid 9th century: I review its links with politics of the day and reconsider the roles given to wife and husband in the only text that deals with this case...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/raymunds-daughters-divorce-9th-century-womans-textual-role-breaking-alliance/feed/ 0 Kissing Cousins: Incest and Sex Change in Tristan de Nanteuil http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/kissing-cousins-incest-sex-change-tristan-de-nanteuil/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/kissing-cousins-incest-sex-change-tristan-de-nanteuil/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:52:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51665 In this paper I re-examine Blanchandine‘s sex change in light of its relation to the issue of incest; as I will show, incest is directly related to the sex change and also punctuates the narrative at other points. Tristan de Nanteuil depicts two sexual and/or romantic relationships between cousins...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/kissing-cousins-incest-sex-change-tristan-de-nanteuil/feed/ 0 Worse than buggery? Incest discourses in the 12th and 13th centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/02/worse-than-buggery-incest-discourses-in-the-12th-and-13th-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/02/worse-than-buggery-incest-discourses-in-the-12th-and-13th-centuries/#comments Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:02:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42578 In my paper today, I will not attempt the question why it was possible that the law developed in such an extreme way as to exclude such an excessive number of people as potential marriage partners, although my opinions on some recent approaches to this problem may become transparent in the course of this talk. Instead, my interest is focussed on what I call the incest discourses in the twelfth and thirteenth century.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/02/worse-than-buggery-incest-discourses-in-the-12th-and-13th-centuries/feed/ 0 Madness and Gender in Late-Medieval English Literature http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/madness-and-gender-in-late-medieval-english-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/madness-and-gender-in-late-medieval-english-literature/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:33:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34134 Madness has been long misrepresented in medieval studies. Assertions that conceptions of mental illness were unknown to medieval people, or that all madmen were assumed to be possessed by the devil, were at one time common in accounts of medieval society.

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