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.
Women, Suicide, and the Jury in Later Medieval England
Were medieval jurors more inclined to condemn female self‐killers to a suicide’s death because of the familiar figure of the mad, possessed woman?
The Middle Ages as Fantasy
Discusses the famous writers J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and the influence of medievalism on their storytelling.