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…
Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials & Joys of Marriage
Troubling Gender and Genre in The Trials & Joys of Marriage Salisbury, Eve Medieval and Early Modern English Studies, vol. 11 (2003) No.…
Queer Relations
Queer Relations Dinshaw, Carolyn Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 16 (1999) Abstract This paper draws on materials from my book, Getting Medieval: Sexualities…
Wu Zhao’s Remarkable Aviary
Despite these fertile pre-conditions, the biological fact that Wu Zhao was a woman presented serious problems in her effort to assume the dragon throne. Even in these open times, the Confucian bureaucracy held great political sway just as patriarchal values, which held to the principle that “the male is venerated and the female is denigrated” (nan zun nu bei 男尊女卑), still exerted tremendous social influence.