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Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, Microaggressions, Harassment, And Abuse—Medieval And Modern Dec 2017

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, Microaggressions, Harassment, And Abuse—Medieval And Modern

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Sexual Harassment And Assault In The Academy, Ann Olivarius Dec 2017

Sexual Harassment And Assault In The Academy, Ann Olivarius

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


"Philfog": Celts, Theorists, And Other "Others", Kristen Mills Dec 2017

"Philfog": Celts, Theorists, And Other "Others", Kristen Mills

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Hidden In Plain Sight, Kate Kelsey Staples Dec 2017

Hidden In Plain Sight, Kate Kelsey Staples

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Teaching De Raptu Meo: Chaucer, Chaumpaigne, And Consent In The Classroom, Anna Waymack Dec 2017

Teaching De Raptu Meo: Chaucer, Chaumpaigne, And Consent In The Classroom, Anna Waymack

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Constructing Prejudice In The Middle Ages And The Repercussions Of Racism Today, Nahir Otano Gracia, Daniel Armenti Dec 2017

Constructing Prejudice In The Middle Ages And The Repercussions Of Racism Today, Nahir Otano Gracia, Daniel Armenti

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Contributors, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.53, No.1 2017 Dec 2017

Contributors, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.53, No.1 2017

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Microaggression, Harassment, And Abuse--How Medieval Are We?, Linda E. Mitchell Dec 2017

Introduction: Microaggression, Harassment, And Abuse--How Medieval Are We?, Linda E. Mitchell

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The 2015 Society For Medieval Feminist Scholarship Survey On Harassment, Jennifer C. Edwards Dec 2017

The 2015 Society For Medieval Feminist Scholarship Survey On Harassment, Jennifer C. Edwards

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Femfog And Fencing: The Risks For Academic Feminism In Public And Online, Jennifer C. Edwards Dec 2017

Femfog And Fencing: The Risks For Academic Feminism In Public And Online, Jennifer C. Edwards

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Medieval Trolls, Mansplainers, And Bullies: Reading Gontier Col's Letters To Christine De Pizan, Elizabeth A. Hubble Dec 2017

Medieval Trolls, Mansplainers, And Bullies: Reading Gontier Col's Letters To Christine De Pizan, Elizabeth A. Hubble

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Old Ideas For A New Debate: Medieval And Modern Attitudes To Abortion, Lydia Harris Dec 2017

Old Ideas For A New Debate: Medieval And Modern Attitudes To Abortion, Lydia Harris

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Architectural Representation And The Dragon’S Lair In Beowulf, Margaret Heeschen Dec 2017

Architectural Representation And The Dragon’S Lair In Beowulf, Margaret Heeschen

Masters Theses

Since the early twentieth century, the dragon’s lair of Beowulf has been primarily associated with the early megalithic mounds of northern Europe. This interpretation of the space, however, does not account for the many contradictions present in the poet’s descriptions. In order to fully understand the quiddity of the dragon’s lair, we must resolve three major issues with previous interpretations: the use of rare words with unclear meanings, contradictions in descriptions of the physical space, and an assumption by scholars that the poet is describing a single type of space identifiable in the historical record. By addressing each of these …


An Analysis Of The Metal Finds From The Ninth-Century Metalworking Site At Bamburgh Castle In The Context Of Ferrous And Non-Ferrous Metalworking In Middle- And Late-Saxon England, Julie Polcrack Aug 2017

An Analysis Of The Metal Finds From The Ninth-Century Metalworking Site At Bamburgh Castle In The Context Of Ferrous And Non-Ferrous Metalworking In Middle- And Late-Saxon England, Julie Polcrack

Masters Theses

This thesis opens with an investigation of the evidence for blacksmithing and non-ferrous metalworking in Anglo-Saxon England during the Middle- and Late-Saxon periods, c. 700-1066. The second chapter of this thesis focuses on knives and non-ferrous strap-ends during this period in order to discern any regional distinction in metalworking from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. I initially conjectured that Northumbrian knives and strap-ends would show stylistic differences from knives and strap-ends made in other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, but in this chapter, I conclude that Northumbrian metal objects were homogenous with the assemblages from the remaining kingdoms. In the final chapter of …


Liturgical Processions In The Black Death, Eric A. Gobel Jun 2017

Liturgical Processions In The Black Death, Eric A. Gobel

The Hilltop Review

The popularity of the flagellant movement in the German speaking lands during the Black Death is due to a number of factors. Flagellation may seem like a nonsensical reaction to despair from a modern perspective, but for medieval people, the itinerant processional penitent pilgrims represented more than a bloody, painful spectacle. Rather, it was a rational and emotion reaction to their troubles. The success of the flagellants lays, not in the grotesquerie of their performances, but instead in their ability to provide people with familiar, engaging ways to perform and observe penance while also departing from ecclesiastical norms that had …


Feminized Counsel And The Literature Of Advice In England, 1380-1500, Bonnie Millar Jun 2017

Feminized Counsel And The Literature Of Advice In England, 1380-1500, Bonnie Millar

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


“Clamor Validus” Vs. “Fragilitas Sexus Feminei”: Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim On The Agency Of Women, Caroline Jansen Jun 2017

“Clamor Validus” Vs. “Fragilitas Sexus Feminei”: Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim On The Agency Of Women, Caroline Jansen

Masters Theses

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim has generated interest among scholars of gender and sexuality due to her status as a woman and writer of Latin legends, epics, and plays in the Ottonian Empire. As the only prominent female playwright of her time, Hrotsvit presents an intriguing, complex treatment of female characters and their sexuality, particularly her plays, which rework both well-known lives of female saints and the tropes of the Roman playwright Terence’s comedies. One issue that has not been fully addressed, however, is the gendering of the heroines populating Hrotsvit’s plays—while some scholars refer to the characters as “overcoming femininity” others …


Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52, No.2 2017 Jun 2017

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52, No.2 2017

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Depending On Sex? Tongue, Sieve, And Ladle Shaped Pendants From Late Iron Age Gotland, Meghan P. Mattsson Mcginnis Jun 2017

Depending On Sex? Tongue, Sieve, And Ladle Shaped Pendants From Late Iron Age Gotland, Meghan P. Mattsson Mcginnis

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

Artifacts of female dress such as brooches and pendants have long been objects of interest to scholars of late Iron Age /early medieval Scandinavia. They figure in dating and tracing stylistic developments, and their presence is often (controversially) used to help assign gender to burials. There are three types of pendants which constitute a type of feminine adornment unique to Viking Age Gotland: the so-called tongue, sieve, and ladle pendants. The purpose of this paper is to examine these pendant types and the possible symbolic and magical functions behind their forms and manner of use, and how these functions intersected …


Allegorical Bodies: Power And Gender In Late Medieval France, Kristin Burr Jun 2017

Allegorical Bodies: Power And Gender In Late Medieval France, Kristin Burr

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Books And Life Of Judith Of Flanders, Amy Livingstone Jun 2017

The Books And Life Of Judith Of Flanders, Amy Livingstone

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives In The European Middle Ages, Kara Larson Maloney Jun 2017

A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives In The European Middle Ages, Kara Larson Maloney

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Politics Of Ecology: Land, Life, And Law In Medieval Britain, Linda E. Mitchell Jun 2017

The Politics Of Ecology: Land, Life, And Law In Medieval Britain, Linda E. Mitchell

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Book Of Margery Kempe, Spenser Santos Jun 2017

The Book Of Margery Kempe, Spenser Santos

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Imagining The Parish In Late Medieval England, Janelle Werner Jun 2017

Imagining The Parish In Late Medieval England, Janelle Werner

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52, No.2 2017 Jun 2017

Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52, No.2 2017

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Invisible Injuries: The Salvific And Sacramental Roles Of Christina Mirabilis, Sarah Macmillan Jun 2017

Invisible Injuries: The Salvific And Sacramental Roles Of Christina Mirabilis, Sarah Macmillan

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

The Life of Christina Mirabilis depicts a series of self-inflicted torments which are seemingly unique in medieval devotional literature in that they leave no outward evidence on her body. This essay examines the self-healing nature of Christina's wounds and the importance of their invisibility in a culture which typically emphasises the visibility of the broken body. It considers the ways in Christina’s resurrected body (in both the Latin (c. 1232) and English (c. 1420) versions of her Life) contributes to thirteenth and fifteenth-century purgatorial and Eucharistic theologies, and suggests a correlation between the bodies of Christina and Christ which …


Visionary "Staycations": Meeting God At Home In Medieval Women’S Vision Literature, Jessica Barr Jun 2017

Visionary "Staycations": Meeting God At Home In Medieval Women’S Vision Literature, Jessica Barr

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

Medieval vision literature frequently features descriptions of supernatural travel: to Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory, or to locations that allow the visionary to receive knowledge to which she would not normally be privy. A less explored trope of this literature, however, is the travel-without-travel that occurs when the visionary’s physical location is overlaid with a transcendent mode of perception. This essay will analyze such moments of spatial transformation in late medieval visionary and hagiographic narratives. In the vitae of many medieval holy women, visions that transform the domestic sphere figure as evidence of their sanctity; in first-person visionary accounts, on the …


Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, Letters To Her Sons (1447-147)), Lynn Blanchfield Jun 2017

Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, Letters To Her Sons (1447-147)), Lynn Blanchfield

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Anchoress: A Novel, Kellyann Fitzpatrick Jun 2017

The Anchoress: A Novel, Kellyann Fitzpatrick

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.