Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants
Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants Kennedy, Beverly The Canterbury Tales Project: Occasional Papers Vol.2, edited by Norman Blake…
The Passion, the Jews, and the Crisis of the Individual on the Naumburg West Choir Screen
The Passion, the Jews, and the Crisis of the Individual on the Naumburg West Choir Screen Jung, Jacqueline E. Beyond the Yellow Badge: Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism…
Men, Women, and Beasts at Clermont, 1095
When Pope Urban II called for a military campaign to the Holy Land in 1095, he launched what would be the first in a series of Christian crusades. But even more than that, he advocated a form of warfare that would be pleasing to God.
FROM FOOTNOTES TO NARRATIVE: WELSH NOBLEWOMEN IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY
FROM FOOTNOTES TO NARRATIVE: WELSH NOBLEWOMEN IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY Richards, Gwenyth PhD Thesis, University of Sydney (2005) Abstract This thesis concentrates on the role…
Women on the Third Crusade
Historians remain undecided over whether or not women actually took up arms during crusading expeditions. Opinions vary widely, from denying that women could ever be true crucesignati to concluding that they took an active role in the fighting.
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: a paleopathological and paleodietary perspective
The Late Medieval Agrarian Crisis and Black Death plague epidemic in medieval Denmark: apaleopathological and paleodietary perspective Yoder, Cassady J. PhD Thesis, Texas A&M University,…
Pope Joan: a recognizable syndrome
The story of the female pope first appeared in a manuscript by friar Jean de Mailly in about 1250 A.D. During the late Middle Ages and Reformation dozens of people wrote about this scandal, many of them Franciscan and Dominican friars or Protestants, and their stories were widely believed.
Same-Sex Relations in the Middle Ages
The study of homosexual, lesbian and bisexual relations during the Middle Ages is a new area of research, with some of the first important books on the topics being published in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF LESBIANISM IN A GENERAL COURSE ON WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF LESBIANISM IN A GENERAL COURSE ON WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES Huot, Sylvia Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue…
The Experience of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Homosexual sex was widespread in the Middle Ages and there is abundant information on what church writers and secular legislators thought about it. Shoddy or partisan scholarship and a distinctly modern disdain of homosexuals by scholars until recently marked much of the discussion of the history of this medieval homosexuality.
Homoerotic Liasons among the Mamluk Elite in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
Homoerotic Liasons among the Mamluk Elite in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria By Everett K. Rowson Islamicate sexualities: translations across temporal geographies of…
Queer Vikings? Transgression of gender and same-sex encounters in the Late Iron Age and early medieval Scandinavia
Queer Vikings? Transgression of gender and same-sex encounters in the Late Iron Age and early medieval Scandinavia By Sami Raninen SQS, Vol.2 (2008)…
THE HETEROSEXUAL SUBJECT OF CHAUCERIAN NARRATIVE
THE HETEROSEXUAL SUBJECT OF CHAUCERIAN NARRATIVE Dinshaw, Carolyn Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue 1 (1992) Spring 1992 Abstract “I’m not sure what…
GAY STUDIES AND FEMINISM: A MEDIEVALIST’S PERSPECTIVE
GAY STUDIES AND FEMINISM: A MEDlEVALIST’S PERSPECTIVE Gaunt, Simon Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Volume 13, Issue 1 (1992) Spring 1992 Abstract Simon Gaunt and…
Experiencing Space Through Women’s Convent Rules: the Rich Clares in Medieval Ghent (Thirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries)
The order of the Clares is generally regarded as the Second Order of Saint Francis of Assisi and was founded by Francis of Assisi himself in 1212 CE at San Damiano near Assisi, and headed by Saint Clare of Assisi (1193/94-1253 CE)
Turnabout is Fair Play: Cross-Dressing and Female Tricksters in Medieval French Texts
I will be examining a very particular version of this woman. In each case she appears, at least for a time, in disguise, in male garb.
The transformation of homosexual Liebestod in sagas translated from Latin
The transformation of homosexual Liebestod in sagas translated from Latin Ashurst, David Saga-Book (2002) Abstract The focus of this article will be on…
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages
Homosexuality in the Middle Ages Johansson, Warren & Percy, William A. Homosexuality in the Middle Ages (2009) Abstract Homosexuality in the Middle Ages…
The Cuckold, His Wife, and Her Lover: A Study of Infidelity in the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, the Decameron, and the Libro de buen amor
This dissertation compares representations of women in erotic triangles. I contend that despite the stability implied by the triangular shape, the erotic triangle can be made unstable through women’s language.
European Women Patrons of Art and Architecture, c. 1500-1650. Some Patterns
To assess women’s patronage roles in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries requires the acknowledgement that women’s support of the arts transpired within a deeply embedded patron-client arrangement pervasive in European social relations and religious practice.
To Rise beyond their Sex: The Representation of Female Cross-Dressing Saints in Caxton’s Vitas Patrum
In my paper, I will discuss the lives of the four cross-dressing women in the Vitas Patrum, and another saint, Mary of Egypt, who shares many of the features of the transvestite saints.
Changing Gender Relation in Medieval and Early Modern Iceland: The Role of Canon Law According to Court Case Narratives
In this paper I shall not primarily discuss this legal regulations rather give some ideas of how the law was used (and shaped on a textual level) at the local courts. Examples will be taken from several court case narrations.
Kissing Kabbalists: Hierarchy, Reciprocity, and Equality
Kissing Kabbalists: Hierarchy, Reciprocity, and Equality By Joel Hecker Studies in Jewish Civilization, Vol.15: “Love – Ideal and Real – in Jewish Civilization”,…
Medieval Arab Lesbians and Lesbian-Like Women
Foreshadowing the medicalization of homosexuality in nineteenth-century Europe, lesbianism in the medieval Islamicate medical tradition seems to have already been regarded as a medical category (though not a deviant one) requiring specific treatment, namely rubbing.