Medievalists.net » Queer Theory 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 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 A Kiss Is Just a Kiss: Heterosexuality and Its Consolations in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/05/kiss-just-kiss-heterosexuality-consolations-sir-gawain-green-knight/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/05/kiss-just-kiss-heterosexuality-consolations-sir-gawain-green-knight/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2014 15:39:44 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51635 The famous line from that modern romance- "A kiss is just a kiss"- is the message the Gawain-poet gave his listeners six centuries ago.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/05/kiss-just-kiss-heterosexuality-consolations-sir-gawain-green-knight/feed/ 0 Queer times: Richard II in the poems and chronicles of late http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/07/queer-times-richard-ii-in-the-poems-and-chronicles-of-late/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/07/queer-times-richard-ii-in-the-poems-and-chronicles-of-late/#comments Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:14:27 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46462 The article focuses on the representation of deviant sexual behavior in 14th-century English poetry and other chronicles. The portrayal of King of England Richard II as a rebellious youth, which is interpreted as perverse and lacking manliness, and the propaganda needed to offset this perception are discussed. Historical information is given about the political culture and power of the church. The murder of Edward II after being accused of sodomy by the Bishop of Hereford is mentioned.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/07/queer-times-richard-ii-in-the-poems-and-chronicles-of-late/feed/ 0 Transvestite Knights: Men and Women Cross-dressing in Medieval Literature http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/transvestite-knights-men-and-women-cross-dressing-in-medieval-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/transvestite-knights-men-and-women-cross-dressing-in-medieval-literature/#comments Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:41:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43951 In this thesis, I will look at mainly French and German texts from the 12th to the 15th centuries which deal with the subject of cross-dressers in the decidedly masculine domain of the knight. There are many tales of cross-dressing, particularly of women, but the concept of men dressing as women while jousting, and women dressing as knights, brings up several questions about the clothes, what it meant to be male and female, and how cross-dressing could be viewed on the tournament field.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/29/transvestite-knights-men-and-women-cross-dressing-in-medieval-literature/feed/ 0 The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/#comments Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:41:47 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42547 The Chaste Erotics of Marie d’Oignies and Jacques de Vitry Jennifer Brown (Marymount Manhattan College) Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 19, No. 1, January (2010) Abstract IN JACQUES DE VITRY’S THIRTEENTH-CENTURY vita of Marie d’Oignies, the hagiographer, or author of a sacred biography, implicates himself in his knowledge of a priest’s surprising reaction […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/08/01/the-chaste-erotics-of-marie-doignies-and-jacques-de-vitry-2/feed/ 0 Are We Post-Queer? A Roundtable on the Present and Future of Queer Theory in Medieval Studies http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/14/are-we-post-queer-a-roundtable-on-the-present-and-future-of-queer-theory-in-medieval-studies/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/14/are-we-post-queer-a-roundtable-on-the-present-and-future-of-queer-theory-in-medieval-studies/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 07:13:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=41079 This was part of an excellent panel discussion on the future Queer Theory, pedagogy, gender and the cross over between Queer Studies and politics.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/14/are-we-post-queer-a-roundtable-on-the-present-and-future-of-queer-theory-in-medieval-studies/feed/ 0 How to be a Man, Though Female: Changing Sex in Medieval Romance http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/12/how-to-be-a-man-though-female-changing-sex-in-medieval-romance/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/12/how-to-be-a-man-though-female-changing-sex-in-medieval-romance/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:15:15 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37056 Gender participates in a series of taxonomies that structure the social order, and it therefore participates in processes beyond itself, such as Christianity and knighthood, which are equally about identity within the world of chivalric romance. Therefore, the inscription of one often helps to define the other.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/12/how-to-be-a-man-though-female-changing-sex-in-medieval-romance/feed/ 0 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 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/24/madness-and-gender-in-late-medieval-english-literature/feed/ 0 The negotiation of gender and power in medieval German writings http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/08/the-negotiation-of-gender-and-power-in-medieval-german-writings/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/08/the-negotiation-of-gender-and-power-in-medieval-german-writings/#comments Sun, 08 Jul 2012 23:19:56 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33516 The Christian religion plays a most important role in the internalization and re-enforcement of patriarchy in the Western world. As will be seen later in this thesis, the relationship between a patriarchal God and his "children" is reflected in the relationship between the male head of the family and his wife, children and servants.

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