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Proto-Nationalism In Scandinavia: Swedish State Building In The Middle Ages, Alexander Jacobson May 2021

Proto-Nationalism In Scandinavia: Swedish State Building In The Middle Ages, Alexander Jacobson

Honors Program Theses

Nationalism is usually considered a modern socio-political development and a product of the French and Industrial Revolutions. However most scholarship done on nationalism largely overlooks religion, and excludes both its presence in the Middle Ages and its development in Scandinavia--focusing heavily on German, British, French, and Central European variations of nationalism. For Scandinavians in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern era, nationalism did not emerge exactly like their European counterparts. It was the product of early religious, technological, and economic changes over the course of the 15th and 16th Centuries that restructured European politics, society, and identity. Using early …


Bodies Of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender In The Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano Sep 2017

Bodies Of Resistance: On (Not) Naming Gender In The Medieval West, Alexander V. Baldassano

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation considers the genres of historiography, romance, hagiography, Chaucerian poetry, and court transcripts. While there are no extant manuscripts depicting transgender-like people’s accounts of themselves, literature of the Middle Ages is replete with fictionalized depictions of ambiguously or transgressively gendered individuals who are meant to symbolize or represent something other than themselves. By investigating how a variety of genres depicts sensationalized and transgressively gendered embodiments, I examine the presentation of transgender-like subjectivity as a manipulation of rhetoric. Viviane Namaste critiques theory such as Marjorie Garber’s Vested Interests, claiming that it reduces the transvestite figure to a rhetorical trope …


A Response: Queer Medievalism: Why And Whither? , Sarah Salih Sep 2003

A Response: Queer Medievalism: Why And Whither? , Sarah Salih

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Becoming (Queer) Medieval: Queer Methodologies In Medieval Studies: Where Are We Now? , Michael O'Rourke Sep 2003

Becoming (Queer) Medieval: Queer Methodologies In Medieval Studies: Where Are We Now? , Michael O'Rourke

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Thinking About Careers: The Medievalist-Feminist Divide , Mary Dockray-Miller Sep 2003

Thinking About Careers: The Medievalist-Feminist Divide , Mary Dockray-Miller

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Next Generation: Bringing Medieval Feminism Into The New Millennium , Wendy Marie Hoofnagle Sep 2003

The Next Generation: Bringing Medieval Feminism Into The New Millennium , Wendy Marie Hoofnagle

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Maternal Reflections On Gender And Medievalism, Mary Dockray-Miller Sep 1997

Maternal Reflections On Gender And Medievalism, Mary Dockray-Miller

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Medfem Bibliography For Ninth-Grade Girls, Patricia Hollahan, Karen Metelnick, Carol Harding Mar 1997

Medfem Bibliography For Ninth-Grade Girls, Patricia Hollahan, Karen Metelnick, Carol Harding

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Literature And Life: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Cindy Vitto Mar 1997

Literature And Life: Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, Cindy Vitto

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Medievalism Today , Leslie J. Workman Mar 1997

Medievalism Today , Leslie J. Workman

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Shared Interests Of Sim And Mfn (Vols. 22 And 23), Kathleen Verduin Mar 1997

Shared Interests Of Sim And Mfn (Vols. 22 And 23), Kathleen Verduin

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Message From The Editor , Ann Marie Rasmussen Sep 1996

Message From The Editor , Ann Marie Rasmussen

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Influence Of J. R. R. Tolkien's Masculinist Medievalism., Michael D. C. Drout Sep 1996

The Influence Of J. R. R. Tolkien's Masculinist Medievalism., Michael D. C. Drout

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Joan Of Arc: Maneuverable Medievalism, Flexible Feminism , Nadia Margolis Sep 1996

Joan Of Arc: Maneuverable Medievalism, Flexible Feminism , Nadia Margolis

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Feminism Within And Without The Academy , Karma Lochrie, Clare A. Lees, Gillian R. Overing Sep 1996

Feminism Within And Without The Academy , Karma Lochrie, Clare A. Lees, Gillian R. Overing

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Medieval Studies And Mentoring, Linda Lomperis, Elizabeth D. Kirk, Catherine Brown, Anne Clark Bartlett, E. Jane Burns, Sarah Sanbury, Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Mar 1996

Medieval Studies And Mentoring, Linda Lomperis, Elizabeth D. Kirk, Catherine Brown, Anne Clark Bartlett, E. Jane Burns, Sarah Sanbury, Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


We' Re Here...Get Used To It, Karma Lochrie Mar 1995

We' Re Here...Get Used To It, Karma Lochrie

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


A Mexican-American Feminist Medievalist, Lisa Dominguez Mar 1995

A Mexican-American Feminist Medievalist, Lisa Dominguez

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Past Watchful Dragons?: Thoughts On The Med-Fem Job Market, Patricia C. Ingham Mar 1995

Past Watchful Dragons?: Thoughts On The Med-Fem Job Market, Patricia C. Ingham

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


On Feminism And Medievalism: Musings From A Prone Position, Megan Mclaughlin Mar 1995

On Feminism And Medievalism: Musings From A Prone Position, Megan Mclaughlin

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


"The American Medievalist: A Social And Professional Profile" Revisited, Susan Mosher Stuard Mar 1995

"The American Medievalist: A Social And Professional Profile" Revisited, Susan Mosher Stuard

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


How Do You Do? Or "How To Be A Feminist Medievalist On The Job Market Today", Sara S. Poor Sep 1994

How Do You Do? Or "How To Be A Feminist Medievalist On The Job Market Today", Sara S. Poor

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Medievalist And Feminist Theory: Prejudices And Problems, Norris J. Lacy Sep 1994

The Medievalist And Feminist Theory: Prejudices And Problems, Norris J. Lacy

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Why Did We Have To Write About Girls? , Holly Hager Gilbert Sep 1994

Why Did We Have To Write About Girls? , Holly Hager Gilbert

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.