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.
Masculine Beauty vs. Feminine Beauty in Medieval Iberia
Look for a woman who is pretty and witty and full of spirit, who is not very tall, not yet dwarfish; if possible, try not to fall in love with a low-born woman, for that kind knows nothing of love: she is like a straw scarecrow.
An Unedited Welsh Poem from Peniarth 49: Cywydd y Gal
An Unedited Welsh Poem from Peniarth 49: Cywydd y Gal By James Doan Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 7:1…
The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi
The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi Tourage, Mahdi VARIORUM, Duke University Press Vol. 25, No. 3, (2005) Abstract Michel Foucault writes that…
Seduction, Abandonment, and Sorcery in Middle English Lyrics
My purpose in writing this article is to expose a different view of romantic relationships that exist in medieval literature, a view that is in opposition to courtly love.
Negotiating Marriage: Artisan Women in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Society
Negotiating Marriage: Artisan Women in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Society Bender, Tovah Leigh PhD Dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (2009) Abstract: Social ties determined status, community membership, and even…
“Lesbian-Like” and the Social History of Lesbianisms
“Lesbian-Like” and the Social History of Lesbianisms Bennett, Judith M.(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol.…
Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules as a Valentine Fable The Subversive Poetics of Feminine Desire
Chaucer’s Parlement of Foules as a Valentine Fable The Subversive Poetics of Feminine Desire Jost, Jean A. In parentheses: Papers in Medieval Studies Vol.1 (1999)…
Serpent of Pleasure: Emergence and Difference in the Medieval Garden of Love
Set apart from the normal realm of moral judgment, the medieval garden of love is usually seen as a site that embodies the carnal and reprehensible human desires that humans must renounce in order to find God.
Sex, the State and the Church in the Middle Ages: An Overview
Sex, the State and the Church in the Middle Ages: An Overview Hopkins, Amanda Published Online (2005) Introduction: An individual’s sexual behaviour in the…
Transgressing the Boundaries of Holiness: Sexual Deviance in the Early Medieval Penitential Handbooks of Ireland, England and France 500-1000
This study will take the form of a closer examination of smaller specific categories of deviance: the nocturnal emissions of clerics, sexual relations during menstruation and pregnancy, homosexuality, bestiality, incest, and adultery.
Intimate Objects and Medieval Sexuality: A Review of CMRS Medieval Sexuality 2009
Intimate Objects and Medieval Sexuality: A Review of CMRS Medieval Sexuality 2009 By Andrea F. Jones CSW Update Newsletter (2009) Introduction: Sex is…
The Meanings of Devotional Space: Female Owner-Portraits in Three French and Flemish Books of Hours
I would argue that owner-portraits create a new textual space for women. Indeed, they are the means of a new way, not just of seeing women, but also of women seeing.
The Naked Truth, or Why in Le Morte Darthur La Beale Isode May Be Naked but Queen Gwenyvere May Not
The Naked Truth, or Why in Le Morte Darthur La Beale Isode May Be Naked but Queen Gwenyvere May Not By Anat Koplowitz-Breier…
“Was It Good for You Too?” Medieval Erotic Art and Its Audiences
It is clear from even a cursory look through medieval writings as diverse as legal proceedings, penitentials, sermons, medical treatises, literature, fabliaux, and poetry, that medieval people themselves were very interested in the topic of sex.