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Juan Rodríguez Del Padrón, Triunfo De Las Donas / The Triumph Of Ladies, Emily C. Francomano
Juan Rodríguez Del Padrón, Triunfo De Las Donas / The Triumph Of Ladies, Emily C. Francomano
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The Triunfo de las donas (The Triumph of Ladies) (1438-1441) by Juan Rodríguez del Padrón (fl. 1440s), is among the very first contributions in Hispanic literature to the pro-feminine modality of the querelle des femmes, or querella de las mujeres. Composed as the preface and dedication to María of Aragón (1396-1445), queen consort of Juan II of Castile (1405-1454), for Rodríguez del Padrón's Cadira de honor (The Seat of Honor), a treatise in defense of noble lineages, the Triunfo de las donas asserts the superiority of women over men, and in so doing, the supremacy of Queen María …
The Oxford Handbook Of Women And Gender In Medieval Europe, Jacqueline Murray
The Oxford Handbook Of Women And Gender In Medieval Europe, Jacqueline Murray
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
‘Mony Prowde Wordez’: Pronominal Speech Acts, Identity And Community In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Katharine Jager
‘Mony Prowde Wordez’: Pronominal Speech Acts, Identity And Community In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Katharine Jager
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This paper examines distinctions between Middle English second person pronouns thou and you and argues that such distinctions provide an important measure by which to understand late medieval chivalric masculinity.
The Space Between A Wound And A Scar: The Negotiation Of Heroic Identity In Gregory Of Nyssa's Life Of Macrina, Jaimie Gunderson
The Space Between A Wound And A Scar: The Negotiation Of Heroic Identity In Gregory Of Nyssa's Life Of Macrina, Jaimie Gunderson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Sexual Culture In The Literature Of Medieval Britain, Christopher Flavin
Sexual Culture In The Literature Of Medieval Britain, Christopher Flavin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Strange Case Of Ermine De Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons And Saints, Mary Anne Gonzales
The Strange Case Of Ermine De Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons And Saints, Mary Anne Gonzales
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Silencing Female Reason In Boccaccio’S Teseida Delle Nozze D’Emilia, Margaret Franklin
Silencing Female Reason In Boccaccio’S Teseida Delle Nozze D’Emilia, Margaret Franklin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The legendary Amazons of antiquity threatened social institutions that relied on communal adherence to the assumption of inherent female limitations, and confrontation between these viragoes and classical heroes provided a fruitful arena for exploring gender politics. Giovanni Boccaccio contributed to this tradition with a unique restaging of Amazonomachy and its consequences in his Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia (1339-1341?). While modern critical consensus holds that Teseo’s subjugation of the Amazons redounds both to his heroism in particular and the wellbeing of society in general, I argue that his unyielding repudiation of their desires and objectives is problematized throughout the text. These …
"Slayn For Goddys Lofe": Margery Kempe's Melancholia And The Bleeding Of Tears, Laura Kalas Williams
"Slayn For Goddys Lofe": Margery Kempe's Melancholia And The Bleeding Of Tears, Laura Kalas Williams
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Founding Feminisms In Medieval Studies: Essays In Honor Of E. Jane Burns, Felice Lifshitz
Founding Feminisms In Medieval Studies: Essays In Honor Of E. Jane Burns, Felice Lifshitz
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Joan De Valence: The Life And Influence Of A Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman, Jitske Jasperse
Joan De Valence: The Life And Influence Of A Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman, Jitske Jasperse
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
More Than One Way To Measure: Masculinity In The Zurkaneh Of Safavid Iran, Zachary T. Smith
More Than One Way To Measure: Masculinity In The Zurkaneh Of Safavid Iran, Zachary T. Smith
The Hilltop Review
The zurkhaneh of early modern Safavid Iran was an institution where men undertook physical training, in some ways reminiscent of a modern-day gymn. This paper attempts to theorize the zurkhaneh as a public space in which primarily non-elite men participated in the social economy of early modern Safavid Iran based upon their pursuit of the ideal of javanmardi, or young manliness. To accomplish this, this paper will combine the themes of publicity, the social utility of the body, and the authority of textuality with an examination of the physical culture of the zurkhaneh to theorize the utility, representation, and …
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51 No.2 2016
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51 No.2 2016
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Beyond Women And Power: Looking Backward And Moving Forward, Kathy M. Krause
Beyond Women And Power: Looking Backward And Moving Forward, Kathy M. Krause
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Recalculating The Equation: Powerful Woman = Extraordinary, Amy Livingstone
Recalculating The Equation: Powerful Woman = Extraordinary, Amy Livingstone
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Woman And Power: Thoughts Arising Out Of The Roundtable "Debating Women And Power In The Middle Ages," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2014, Penelope Nash
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Questions are asked about how we study medieval women in positions of power, with particular reference to elite Italian and German women in the earlier Middle Ages. The essay calls for scholars to search for nuances in former understandings of women’s opportunities to exercise power while re-examining locality, time period, life cycles, and female and male power. The essay includes an appeal to scholars to become better acquainted with the work of their peers who write in other languages.
Mistrusting The Historiography Of Royal Mothers: Louis Of Savoy And Catherine De Medici, Kathleen Wellman
Mistrusting The Historiography Of Royal Mothers: Louis Of Savoy And Catherine De Medici, Kathleen Wellman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I, and Catherine de Medici, mother of the last three reigning Valois kings—Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III—were two sixteenth-century women whose maternity gave them access to power and provided the foundation for their claims to exercise it legitimately. While their contemporaries either accepted or contested those claims, some nineteenth-century critics vehemently rejected female rule, particularly by mothers. Modern scholars have left those nineteenth-century repudiations largely unquestioned.
Mistresses And Merveilleuses: The Historiographical Record On Female Political Players Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Christine Adams
Mistresses And Merveilleuses: The Historiographical Record On Female Political Players Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Christine Adams
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Modern historians have found it difficult to disrupt the narrative inherited from past scholars, who argued that even prominent women lacked any genuine political role in the early modern world. However, in many ways, the personal influence that women exercised in court and salon society was highly political, as was that of men. An examination of the power of highly visible women, for example, famous mistresses such as Madame de Montespan and Madame Tallien, suggests that historians should broaden their understanding of the “political” and more carefully interrogate the activities of female historical figures, rejecting the moralistic accounts that have …
What Do We Mean By "Women And Power"?, Marie A. Kelleher
What Do We Mean By "Women And Power"?, Marie A. Kelleher
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay considers the question of how we define “power” in order to best include women and gender. Queenship/lordship studies have been at the forefront of women-and-power discussions, and have advanced that discussion by moving away from the “exceptional woman” biographies to focus on the patterns of power that these women embodied. But if we extend our definition of power beyond the realm of public authority to a more general category of acts that can shape the destinies of others, we are confronted with a much broader field of action that might be considered “women’s power” — a field that …
Powerful Women And Misogynistic Subplots: Some Comments On The Necessity Of Checking The Primary Sources, Tracy Adams
Powerful Women And Misogynistic Subplots: Some Comments On The Necessity Of Checking The Primary Sources, Tracy Adams
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Many women formerly regarded as harridans, vixens, or worse by historians throughout the ages have been rehabilitated in recent years. It is therefore discouraging to find old narratives of female promiscuity, intriguing, incompetence, frivolity, cupidity, obesity) continuing to circulate, in the form of what we might think of as female "subplots" in larger histories. When the woman in question is not the star of the study she is often subject to outdated stereotypes gleaned from old studies. This essay, focusing on a number of very recent subplots that recycle verifiably incorrect assumptions about Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435), queen of mad …
Archives From Houses Of Cistercian Nuns And Their Evidence For Powerful Thirteenth-Century Secular Women, Constance H. Berman
Archives From Houses Of Cistercian Nuns And Their Evidence For Powerful Thirteenth-Century Secular Women, Constance H. Berman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay examines documents from abbeys of Cistercian nuns in northern France. The documents reveal the presence of numerous women of power and authority as founders and patrons of those women's houses. Where some women were acting as widows or regents, others had access to sufficient funds for acts of patronage and foundation because they were heiresses. Here those named Matilda from the ecclesiastical province of Sens in northern France are underlined, showing the diversity of female wealth and power.
Queenship Studies Comes Of Age, Lois L. Huneycutt
Queenship Studies Comes Of Age, Lois L. Huneycutt
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Literary Heiresses And Historical Countesses In Thirteenth-Century France: Some Methodological Notes, Kathy M. Krause
Literary Heiresses And Historical Countesses In Thirteenth-Century France: Some Methodological Notes, Kathy M. Krause
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Contemplating Royal Women's Access To Power And The Transition Between The Middle Ages And The "Monstrous Regiment" Of The Early Modern Era, Elena Woodacre
Contemplating Royal Women's Access To Power And The Transition Between The Middle Ages And The "Monstrous Regiment" Of The Early Modern Era, Elena Woodacre
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This paper considers the factors which enabled women to access power via developing mechanisms for royal succession in medieval Europe and how this access was mediated through partnership with co-rulers, including consorts, sons and other co-opted family members and councilors. Finally the paper considers the relationship between the female rulers of the Middle Ages and the famous "Monstrous Regiment" in Early Modern Europe.
Where Do We Go From Here? Some Thoughts On Power And Gender In The Middle Ages, Theresa Earenfight
Where Do We Go From Here? Some Thoughts On Power And Gender In The Middle Ages, Theresa Earenfight
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Current research on queens exposes the biased weaknesses in much of the scholarly work on monarchy and reveals that queens were hardly exceptional. By examining monarchy as a family affair, rather than that of a man alone on the throne, it is clear that queens and noblewomen were fundamental to the operations of monarchy. Taking this meta-discourse of monarchy into account reveals a complex network of affiliations that were obscured by generations of scholars who focused only the deeds of men and thus regarded a woman in power as exceptional.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51 No.2 2016
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51 No.2 2016
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Fort St. Joseph Post - Spring 2016, Michael S. Nassaney
Fort St. Joseph Post - Spring 2016, Michael S. Nassaney
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
We hope you enjoy this issue of the Fort St. Joseph Post, filled with information about current activities that are being conducted under the auspices of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project, a partnership between the City of Niles and Western Michigan University. As you can see, students, staff, faculty, and volunteers are busy investigating, interpreting, and promoting the archaeology of Fort St. Joseph, one of the most important French colonial sites in the western Great Lakes region. We are regularly present at professional conferences, community events, and other venues sharing information about the fort and inviting the public to …
5: Project History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
5: Project History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Investigations at the long lost fort were begun in 1998 by WMU archaeologists.
2: Fort History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
2: Fort History, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
The French established Fort St. Joseph in the 1691 in present day Niles.