On Lesbian and Gay/Queer Medieval Studies
On Lesbian and Gay/Queer Medieval Studies By David Lorenzo Boyd Medieval Feminist Forum, Vol.15 No. 1 (1993) Introduction: A graduate student sitting next…
Between Monks: Tales of Monastic Companionship in Early Byzantium
Between Monks: Tales of Monastic Companionship in Early Byzantium By Derek Krueger Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 20, Number 1 (2011)…
Erotic Tales of Medieval Germany
Erotic Tales of Medieval Germany Translated by Albrecht Classen Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies: Texts for Teaching, Volume 3 Arizona Center for…
Flowers and Fruits: Two Thousand Years of Menstrual Regulation
Flowers and Fruits: Two Thousand Years of Menstrual Regulation By Etienne van de Walle Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol.28:2 (1997) Introduction: Despite recent…
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…
Pietro Bembo: A Renaissance Courtier Who Had His Cake and Ate It Too
Pietro Bembo: A Renaissance Courtier Who Had His Cake and Ate It Too Quattrocchi, Ed JOURNAL OF THE CAXTON CLUB OF CHICAGO Abstract…
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.
Lewd Imaginings: Pedagogy, Piety, and Peformance in Late Medieval East Anglia
Lewd Imaginings: Pedagogy, Piety, and Peformance in Late Medieval East Anglia Sebastian, John Thomas PhD Dissertation, Cornell University, August (2004) Abstract This dissertation…
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.
Representing the Negative: Positing the Lesbian Void in Medieval English Anchoritism
Moreover, the anchoritic cell provided something that the majority of medieval households did not have – a private space. This space was specifically female, specifically female-controlled, and specifically eroticized.
The Bishop in the Bedroom: Witnessing Episcopal Sexuality in an Age of Reform
A significant number of bishops continued to marry during the eleventh century.
Clerics and Courtly Love in Andreas Capellanus’ The Art of Courtly Love and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales
In both The Canterbury Tales and The Art of Courtly Love Geoffrey Chaucer and Andreas Capellanus deal with various aspects of courtly love. In particular, both of them focus to some degree on the question of clerical celibacy.
Sexual Pantomime in Von dem Ritter mit den Nüzzen
Sexual Pantomime in Von dem Ritter mit den Nüzzen By Louise O. Vasvari eHumanista: Journal of Iberian Studies, Volume 15 (2010) Introduction: My…
Orgeluse and the Trial for Rape at the Court of King Arthur: Parzival 521, 19 to 529, 16
Orgeluse and the Trial for Rape at the Court of King Arthur: Parzival 521, 19 to 529, 16 Westphal-Wihl, Sarah Arthuriana 20.3 (2010) Abstract…
“Salvation, Sex, and Subjectivity”
Vagantes Conference Bruce Vernarde (Pitt U) “Salvation, Sex, and Subjectivity” In 1980, John Boswell published “Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality”. It was considered…
Sex Difference in Medieval Theology and Canon Law: A Tribute to Joan Cadden
Meanings of Sex Difference draws on a very wide range of sources, cross- ing and re-crossing traditional boundaries between the disciplines. Joan Cadden also pays particular attention to the cultural and social milieux these sources were produced in; to the assumptions and expectations of authors and readers; to questions of form, style, and presentation.
“Let her be taken”: Sexual Violence in Medieval England
Violence was a part of everyday life for most Europeans throughout the Middle Ages. It affected everyone, but the exact nature of the violence was often gender specific; victims of sexual violence are, and were, most often women.