Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.55, No.2, Winter 2019,
2020
Western Michigan University
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.55, No.2, Winter 2019
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Talking Back: Sodomy Laws And Transgressive Subjectivity In Medieval Venice,
2020
Western Michigan University
Talking Back: Sodomy Laws And Transgressive Subjectivity In Medieval Venice, Alex Baldassano
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Urban Italian law, by the fifteenth-century, would become particularly aggressive in comparison to the rest of Europe not only in prosecuting sodomy, but also in implementing the threatened capital punishment. The 1354 Venetian court case of Rolandinus/a Ronchaia, in the century leading up to the officialization of the law, both exemplifies this trend and yet also stands out as unique because of the subject’s gender presentation; the case seeks to resolve whether or not this person, perceived either as ambiguously gendered or as a man dressed as a woman, can be convicted of committing sodomy or prostitution. Ronchaia, however, is …
Disordered Women? The Hospital Sisters Of Mainz And Their Late Medieval Identities,
2020
Wartburg College
Disordered Women? The Hospital Sisters Of Mainz And Their Late Medieval Identities, Lucy C. Barnhouse
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Debates over the identity of women’s religious communities have exercised historians no less than late medieval canonists and officials. Even as the legal regulation of such communities increased, so, paradoxically, did the diversity of forms that such communities took. Although these trends have been the subject of much historical attention, the division of mixed-gender hospital communities which occurred across Europe in the thirteenth century has not hitherto been integrated into such studies. I attempt to redress this lacuna by examining the contested religious identity of the hospital sisters of Mainz. Forced to leave the mixed-gender staff of the city’s Heilig …
Experiencing Authority: The Wife Of Bath's Deaf Ear And The Flawed Exegesis Of St. Jerome,
2020
College of the Ozarks
Experiencing Authority: The Wife Of Bath's Deaf Ear And The Flawed Exegesis Of St. Jerome, David Pedersen
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Although Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is among English literature’s most analyzed characters, scholars have been remarkably uninterested in one of her most unique traits: her deaf ear. Despite the fact that this disability is mentioned more often than any of her other physical characteristics, more even than the regularly discussed gap in her teeth, scholars have rarely spent more than a paragraph addressing the deafness, if they do so at all. This is no doubt due in part to the fact that scholars have assumed a symbolic link between the Wife’s inability to hear and her problematic scriptural exegesis, and …
Late Medieval Sexual Badges As Sexual Signifiers: A Material Culture Reappraisal,
2020
University of York
Late Medieval Sexual Badges As Sexual Signifiers: A Material Culture Reappraisal, Sarah Hinds
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.55, No.2, Winter 2019,
2020
Western Michigan University
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.55, No.2, Winter 2019
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Mechthild Of Magdeburg, Hadewijch Of Brabant, And Marguerite Of Porete: The Annihilation Of The Soul And The Challenge To Church Authority,
2020
University of Alabama
Mechthild Of Magdeburg, Hadewijch Of Brabant, And Marguerite Of Porete: The Annihilation Of The Soul And The Challenge To Church Authority, Ashley Odebiyi
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Sexual And Erotic Transgression Through Aesthetic History: A Study Of Algernon Charles Swinburne,
2020
Michigan State University
Sexual And Erotic Transgression Through Aesthetic History: A Study Of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Ronny F. Ford
Beyond the Margins: A Journal of Graduate Literary Scholarship
This article examines the relationship between Algernon Charles Swinburne’s poetic writing and history, especially in regards to how he explores sexual transgressions. The article begins with how aestheticism works in tangent with history to further these transgressions within a historical context and especially within the realm of Victorian Christianity. Next, Swinburne’s medieval aesthetics in “The Leper” will be analyzed in regards specifically necrophilia and the taking care of a leper, and how the writing of this poem was both a condemnation of Christianity and an accidental upholding of it. The violent homoeroticism and monstrous femininity of “Anactoria” are also looked …
The Aesthetics Of Storytelling And Literary Criticism As Mythological Ritual: The Myth Of The Human Tragic Hero, Intertextual Comparisons Between The Heroes And Monsters Of Beowulf And The Anglo-Saxon Exodus,
2020
East Tennessee State University
The Aesthetics Of Storytelling And Literary Criticism As Mythological Ritual: The Myth Of The Human Tragic Hero, Intertextual Comparisons Between The Heroes And Monsters Of Beowulf And The Anglo-Saxon Exodus, Daniel Stoll
Undergraduate Honors Theses
For thousands of years, people have been hearing, reading, and interpreting stories and myths in light of their own experience. To read a work by a different author living in a different era and setting, people tend to imagine works of literature to be something they are not. To avoid this fateful tendency, I hope to elucidate what it means to read a work of literature and interpret it: love it to the point of wanting to foremost discuss its excellence of being a piece of art. Rather than this being a defense, I would rather call it a musing, …
Conduct Becoming: Good Wives And Husbands In The Later Middle Ages,
2020
Florida International University
Conduct Becoming: Good Wives And Husbands In The Later Middle Ages, Tovah Bender
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Fragments For A History Of Vanishing Humanism,
2020
Florida International University
Fragments For A History Of Vanishing Humanism, Heather Blatt
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Her Father's Daughter: Gender, Power, And Religion In The Early Spanish Kingdoms,
2020
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Her Father's Daughter: Gender, Power, And Religion In The Early Spanish Kingdoms, Jessica A. Boon
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The French Of Medieval England: Essays In Honour Of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne,
2020
Rice University
The French Of Medieval England: Essays In Honour Of Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, S. C. Kaplan
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities In Medieval Europe,
2020
University of Vermont
Imagined Communities: Constructing Collective Identities In Medieval Europe, Charles-Louis Morand-Metivier
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
"Le Bone Florence Of Rome": A Critical Edition And Facing Translation Of A Middle English Romance Analogous To Chaucer's "Man Of Law's Tale",
2020
Trinity College Dublin
"Le Bone Florence Of Rome": A Critical Edition And Facing Translation Of A Middle English Romance Analogous To Chaucer's "Man Of Law's Tale", Brendan O'Connell
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Peace And Penance In Late Medieval Italy,
2020
Marist College
Peace And Penance In Late Medieval Italy, Janine Larmon Peterson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Sight Of Semiramis: Medieval And Early Modern Narratives Of The Babylonian Queen,
2020
Queen's University Belfast
The Sight Of Semiramis: Medieval And Early Modern Narratives Of The Babylonian Queen, Victoria E. H. Walker
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Royal And Elite Households In Medieval And Early Modern Europe: More Than Just A Castle,
2020
University of Winchester
Royal And Elite Households In Medieval And Early Modern Europe: More Than Just A Castle, Elena Woodacre
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Non-Muslim Integration Into The Early Islamic Caliphate Through The Use Of Surrender Agreements,
2020
University of Arkansas
Non-Muslim Integration Into The Early Islamic Caliphate Through The Use Of Surrender Agreements, Rachel Hutchings
History Undergraduate Honors Theses
In this honors thesis, I discuss the role of surrender agreements in the early Islamic caliphate and their evolution through the ninth century. Seen as a window into the developing relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, surrender agreements shed considerable light on the evolving conceptualization of non-Muslims’ place in dar al-Islam from the point of view of Islamic legal tradition and political theory. By defining the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims in a framework that was agreed on by all parties and one that preserved the basic rights of non-Muslims, these agreements were remarkably effective in facilitating the incorporation of …
The Medieval British Legacy Of The Founding Myth Of Britain,
2020
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
The Medieval British Legacy Of The Founding Myth Of Britain, Timothy J. Nelson
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The Medieval British Legacy of the Founding Myth of Britain” examines the historiographical development of the founding myth of Britain between the 9th and 14th centuries. This study begins with an overview of the Latin, Anglo-Norman French, Middle English, and Middle Welsh texts that transmit this founding myth across medieval Britain. The stylistic features and the motivations of the authors who are adapting this myth are addressed but the main objective of this overview is to introduce the texts in question and to start establishing the intertextual relationships between these works. The textual examination of the historiographical development of the …
