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Miraculous Monstrosity: Birth And Female Sexuality In The Illuminated Scivias And Cloisters Apocalypse, Jenna M. Mckellips
Miraculous Monstrosity: Birth And Female Sexuality In The Illuminated Scivias And Cloisters Apocalypse, Jenna M. Mckellips
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This paper compares the illuminations in two medieval apocalypses, the Cloisters Apocalypse and Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias, to inspect their similar constructions of female sexuality, motherhood, and monstrosity. It first analyzes the monstrosity of female sexual organs found in Hildegard’s portrayal of the Church and the Mother of the Antichrist. The paper then goes on to consider the uncanny slippage between images of birth and death in the Cloisters’s depiction of John and the Woman of Revelation 12. Ultimately, the paper not only explores the monstrosity of female bodies in apocalyptic manuscripts, but also concludes that medieval women’s …
Precarious Manhood: Adolescence And Group Rape In Late Medieval Europe, Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Precarious Manhood: Adolescence And Group Rape In Late Medieval Europe, Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Sexual assault, through coercion or violence, was omnipresent at every level of medieval society and perpetrated by males from all socio-economic backgrounds. This article argues that a specific type of sexual violence—group rape—committed by two or more individuals, was a phase of men’s social development. It explores the connection between adolescence and sexual aggression to show that collective rape was a feature of male youth culture used a form of recreation to gain sexual experience, forge bonds with peers, and publicly prove masculinity as adolescents transitioned from childhood to adulthood. Many young males first learned to rape in groups before …
Opportunism & Duty: Gendered Perceptions Of Women's Involvement In Crusade Negotiation And Mediation (1147-1254), Gordon M. Reynolds
Opportunism & Duty: Gendered Perceptions Of Women's Involvement In Crusade Negotiation And Mediation (1147-1254), Gordon M. Reynolds
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Women’s involvement in negotiation and mediation during the Middle Ages has received close scrutiny. However, few scholars have concentrated their investigations on the trends in female-led negotiations during the crusades in the Near East, and the significance of the religious connotations of such leadership in this theatre. There were dramatic societal shifts in the Latin East during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, most significantly in the aftermath of the Battle of Hattin and loss of Jerusalem in 1187. The destruction of much of the Latin East’s crusader states that followed Jerusalem’s fall displaced many individuals, and with a plethora of Christian nobles …
Depending On Sex? Tongue, Sieve, And Ladle Shaped Pendants From Late Iron Age Gotland, Meghan P. Mattsson Mcginnis
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 …
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51, No.1, 2015
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51, No.1, 2015
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Reginal Intercession And The Case Of Cristina, Convicted Murderer, Katherine Allocco
Reginal Intercession And The Case Of Cristina, Convicted Murderer, Katherine Allocco
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In the winter of 1328-1329, Cristina, widow of Thomas Scot, potter of London, was convicted, imprisoned in Newgate and sentenced to hang for the crime of murdering her husband. Her execution was delayed due to her pregnancy. In January or February 1329, Cristina sent a letter to Isabella of France, queen mother, requesting a King’s pardon. On March 2, Edward III pardoned Cristina, at his mother’s request, through letters patent. It appears that Isabella, who had an established reputation as an intercessor for both personal petitions and general political appeals, had successfully interceded on Cristina’s behalf. Although medieval queens- both …
The War Of The Two Jeannes And The Role Of The Duchess In Lordship In The Fourteenth Century, Katrin E. Sjursen
The War Of The Two Jeannes And The Role Of The Duchess In Lordship In The Fourteenth Century, Katrin E. Sjursen
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In the mid-fourteenth century, two women headed opposing parties in a civil war for control of the duchy of Brittany in France. Conventional scholarship explains their involvement in politics and warfare as exceptions possible only during emergencies. Contemporary chronicles and the letters of the two women themselves, however, tell another story, one in which these two women participated in politics and warfare even before their husbands entered captivity. Their participation makes sense if we recognize that medieval society understood lordship as a form of shared governance performed by a noble couple. While separate roles did exist for the husband and …
Kingship And Masculinity In Late Medieval England, Jennifer Thibodeaux
Kingship And Masculinity In Late Medieval England, Jennifer Thibodeaux
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Unrivalled Influence: Women And Empire In Byzantium, Hailey Lavoy
Unrivalled Influence: Women And Empire In Byzantium, Hailey Lavoy
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matterr, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51, No.1, 2015
Back Matterr, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51, No.1, 2015
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
A Poisoned Past: The Life And Times Of Margarida De Portu, A Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner, Candace Robb
A Poisoned Past: The Life And Times Of Margarida De Portu, A Fourteenth-Century Accused Poisoner, Candace Robb
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Elizabeth De Burgh, Lady Of Clare (1295-1360): Household And Other Records, Linda E. Mitchell
Elizabeth De Burgh, Lady Of Clare (1295-1360): Household And Other Records, Linda E. Mitchell
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Three Spanish Querelle Texts: A Bilingual Edition And Study, Elena Woodacre
Three Spanish Querelle Texts: A Bilingual Edition And Study, Elena Woodacre
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Heroines Of The French Epic: A Second Selection Of Chansons De Geste, Kathy M. Krause
Heroines Of The French Epic: A Second Selection Of Chansons De Geste, Kathy M. Krause
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Conflicting Femininities In Medieval German Literature, Olga V. Trokhimenko
Conflicting Femininities In Medieval German Literature, Olga V. Trokhimenko
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.2, 2015
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.2, 2015
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.2, 2015
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.2, 2015
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Virgin'a End: The Suppression Of The York Marian Pageants, Andrea R. Harbin
Virgin'a End: The Suppression Of The York Marian Pageants, Andrea R. Harbin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
With the rise of the Reformation in England, we see the abolishment of much of the religious drama of the late Middle Ages. The first pageants in York to fall victim to this were the pageants about Mary, which were produced by the weavers', drapers', and hostellers' guilds. While the content of the Marian pageants themselves made them a target of Reformational ire, public sentiment was still on the side of the Corpus Christi Play as a whole. Yet the guilds that produced the Marian plays were not as powerful as they had once been. All three of these trades …
The Fabric Of Marian Devotion In Isabel De Villena's Vita Christi, Laura Michele Diener
The Fabric Of Marian Devotion In Isabel De Villena's Vita Christi, Laura Michele Diener
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Questions Of Gender In Byzantine Society, Kriszta Kotsis
Questions Of Gender In Byzantine Society, Kriszta Kotsis
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women And Economic Activities In Late Medieval Ghent, Kate Staples
Women And Economic Activities In Late Medieval Ghent, Kate Staples
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures Of Desire In The Canterbury Tales, Christopher Flavin
Chaucer's Feminine Subjects: Figures Of Desire In The Canterbury Tales, Christopher Flavin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Policing The Queer: Narratives Of Dissent And Containment In Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Roberta Magnani
Policing The Queer: Narratives Of Dissent And Containment In Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Roberta Magnani
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Medieval Hortus Conclusus: Revisiting The Pleasure Garden, Liz Herbert Mcavoy
The Medieval Hortus Conclusus: Revisiting The Pleasure Garden, Liz Herbert Mcavoy
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Virgin In The Hortus Conclusus: Healing The Body And Healing The Soul, Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
The Virgin In The Hortus Conclusus: Healing The Body And Healing The Soul, Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Beguine, The Angel, And The Inquisitor: The Trials Of Marguerite Porete And Guiard Of Cressonessart, Tanya Stabler Miller
The Beguine, The Angel, And The Inquisitor: The Trials Of Marguerite Porete And Guiard Of Cressonessart, Tanya Stabler Miller
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Exhortations To Women And To Others If They Please, Lyn Blanchfield
Exhortations To Women And To Others If They Please, Lyn Blanchfield
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
A Handbook Of Anglo-Saxon Studies, Tracey-Anne Cooper
A Handbook Of Anglo-Saxon Studies, Tracey-Anne Cooper
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages, Sara M. Butler
Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages, Sara M. Butler
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Nuns Literacies In Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, Claire Taylor Jones
Nuns Literacies In Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, Claire Taylor Jones
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.