Medievalists.net » John Boswell http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Got Medieval? http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/25/got-medieval/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/25/got-medieval/#comments Tue, 25 Sep 2012 15:04:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35977 Developing queer history through the concept of affective connection—a touch across time—and through the intentional collapse of conventional historical time, I wanted in Getting Medieval to help queer studies re- spond to such desire.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/25/got-medieval/feed/ 0 The Roman De La Rose and the Thirteenth Century Prohibitions of Homosexuality http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/11/the-roman-de-la-rose-and-the-thirteenth-century-prohibitions-of-homosexuality/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/11/the-roman-de-la-rose-and-the-thirteenth-century-prohibitions-of-homosexuality/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:14:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32641 This paper, a tentative approach by someone who is not an expert in this area or on this text, argues that Guillaume de Lorris offers a veiled description of a male to male love relationship.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/11/the-roman-de-la-rose-and-the-thirteenth-century-prohibitions-of-homosexuality/feed/ 0 THE HETEROSEXUAL SUBJECT OF CHAUCERIAN NARRATIVE http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/01/the-heterosexual-subject-of-chaucerian-narrative/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/01/the-heterosexual-subject-of-chaucerian-narrative/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:48:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22342 THE HETEROSEXUAL SUBJECT OF CHAUCERIAN NARRATIVE Dinshaw, Carolyn Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue 1 (1992) Spring 1992 Abstract “I’m not sure what it has to do with Chaucer, but it’s interesting:” one response to the fIrst session of my graduate Chaucer seminar at Berkeley, a course I’ve titled “The Heterosexual Subject of Chaucerian Narrative.” […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/01/the-heterosexual-subject-of-chaucerian-narrative/feed/ 0 GAY STUDIES AND FEMINISM: A MEDIEVALIST’S PERSPECTIVE http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/01/gay-studies-and-feminism-a-medlevalists-perspective/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/01/gay-studies-and-feminism-a-medlevalists-perspective/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:06:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=22335 GAY STUDIES AND FEMINISM: A MEDlEVALIST’S PERSPECTIVE Gaunt, Simon Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue 1 (1992) Spring 1992 Abstract Simon Gaunt and Carolyn Dinshaw, reflecting on the nature of compulsory heterosexuality in the Middle Ages, suggest that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of a spectrum of possible sexualities can be very helpful. Sedgwick asserts that […]

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