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 …
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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, …
The Witchcraft Sourcebook,
2020
Lock Haven University
The Witchcraft Sourcebook, Holle Canatella
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.
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.
Imperial Ladies Of The Ottonian Dynasty: Women And Rule In Tenth-Century Germany,
2020
University of Maryland, College Park
Imperial Ladies Of The Ottonian Dynasty: Women And Rule In Tenth-Century Germany, Janna Bianchini
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.
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.
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.
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 …
Between The Judean Desert And Gaza: Asceticism And The Monastic Communities Of Palestine In The Sixth Century,
2020
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Between The Judean Desert And Gaza: Asceticism And The Monastic Communities Of Palestine In The Sixth Century, Austin Mccray
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The dissertation focuses on the religious culture of Christian monasticism in sixth-century Palestine. Rather than see the monastic communities of the Judean Desert, just to the east of Jerusalem, and those around Gaza as two independent monastic regions, as much scholarship has done, the dissertation focuses on the common threads that can be seen in the monastic teachings and idealized ascetic practices in the literature of the area. This dissertation reveals ways to redefine the boundaries between the monastic communities of Palestine during the sixth century as well as emphasizes the continuities between the monks of the Judean Desert and …
The Rise And Fall Of South Carolina College,
2020
University of South Carolina - Columbia
The Rise And Fall Of South Carolina College, Robert D. Cathcart Iii
Senior Theses
Through a thorough examination of the underpinnings of Classical education, as well as the history of South Carolina College, it is clear that the classical system is superior to the later University system imposed upon the College during the Reconstruction period. Classical education began in the Greek philosophic schools, such as the Academy and the Lyceum, and was intended to enrich the soul of its students, as well as to equip them for leadership in the future. But the most important aspect of this education was its universality. It is highly ironic that the original concept of the University …
