Vice & Virtue As Woman?: The Iconography Of Gender Identity In The Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations,
2019
University of Edinburgh
Vice & Virtue As Woman?: The Iconography Of Gender Identity In The Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations, Stephenie Mcgucken
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In the Late Anglo-Saxon illustrated manuscripts of Prudentius's Psychomachia, vice and virtue are often shown ambiguously and the audience is encouraged to question what is male and what is female, and whether such categories are appropriate in understanding these illustrations. This paper utilises transgender theory to demonstrate how gender could be deployed in Late Anglo-Saxon manuscripts to question the roles of men and women with the ultimate aim of stressing the importance of righteous behaviours.
Visions Of Medieval Trans Feminism: An Introduction,
2019
Brandeis University
Visions Of Medieval Trans Feminism: An Introduction, Dorothy Kim, M. W. Bychowski
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Imperatrix, Domina, Rex: Conceptualizing The Female King In Twelfth-Century England,
2019
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Imperatrix, Domina, Rex: Conceptualizing The Female King In Twelfth-Century England, Coral Lumbley
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article draws on methods from transgender theory, historicist literary studies, and visual analysis of medieval sealing practices to show that Empress Matilda of England was controversially styled as a female king during her career in the early to mid twelfth century. While the chronicle Gesta Stephani castigates Matilda’s failure to engage in sanctioned gendered behaviors as she waged civil war to claim her inherited throne, Matilda’s seal harnesses both masculine and feminine signifiers in order to proclaim herself both king and queen. While Matilda’s transgressive gender position was targeted by her detractors during her lifetime, the obstinately transgender object …
A Space Of Her Own: Genderfluidity And Negotiation In The Life Of Christina Of Markyate,
2019
Arizona State University
A Space Of Her Own: Genderfluidity And Negotiation In The Life Of Christina Of Markyate, Meghan L. Nestel
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This paper draws on transgender studies and theories of gender performativity and genderfluidity to consider how twelfth-century holy woman Christina of Markyate resists traditional and third-gender binary policing. It argues that Christina is genderfluid, and that as a secular, masculinized, and religious virgin, she co-exists within and moves among multiple gender spaces that allow her to establish her own authority.
“Car Vallés Sui Et Nient Mescine”: Trans Heroism And Literary Masculinity In Le Roman De Silence,
2019
Clemson University
“Car Vallés Sui Et Nient Mescine”: Trans Heroism And Literary Masculinity In Le Roman De Silence, Caitlin G. Watt
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The title character of Heldris de Cornüalle’s thirteenth-century Le Roman de Silence, raised as a boy because of a ban on female inheritance, achieves acclaim as a knight and minstrel before ultimately being relegated to a traditional feminine role when the deception is revealed and the knight becomes a queen. Although the text has offered prompted many fruitful analyses of its depiction of womanhood and women’s potential by scholars reading Silence as a cross-dressing woman, reading Silence instead as a transmasculine figure may offer new perspectives on Silence’s treatment of gender. This article explores the possibility of Silence …
The Necropolitics Of Narcissus: Confessions Of Transgender Suicide In The Middle Ages,
2019
Case Western Reserve University
The Necropolitics Of Narcissus: Confessions Of Transgender Suicide In The Middle Ages, M. W. Bychowski
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
"Calling [Herself] Eleanor": Gender Labor And Becoming A Woman In The Rykener Case,
2019
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Calling [Herself] Eleanor": Gender Labor And Becoming A Woman In The Rykener Case, Kadin Henningsen
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Critics And The Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, And Chaucer's Prioress's Tale,
2019
Lindenwood University
The Critics And The Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, And Chaucer's Prioress's Tale, Melissa Ridley Elmes
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Margaret, Queen Of Sicily,
2019
Muscatine Community College
Margaret, Queen Of Sicily, Misty Urban
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.55, No.1, Summer 2019,
2019
Western Michigan University
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.55, No.1, Summer 2019
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Afterward: Sylvia Rivera And Marsha P. Johnson In The Medieval Imaginary,
2019
The Ohio State University
The Afterward: Sylvia Rivera And Marsha P. Johnson In The Medieval Imaginary, Joy Ellison, Nicholas Hoffman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Studying Gender In Medieval Europe: Historical Approaches,
2019
Clemson University
Studying Gender In Medieval Europe: Historical Approaches, Caroline Dunn
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Amalasuintha: The Transformation Of Queenship In The Post-Roman World,
2019
City University of New York: Borough of Manhattan Community College
Amalasuintha: The Transformation Of Queenship In The Post-Roman World, Nicole Lopez-Jantzen
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Modern Intolerance And The Medieval Crusades [Excerpted From Whose Middle Ages?],
2019
Fordham University
Modern Intolerance And The Medieval Crusades [Excerpted From Whose Middle Ages?], Nicholas L. Paul
History
Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the non-specialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where humans have dug for meaning into the medieval past and brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author teases out the stakes of a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy …
Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments For An Ill-Used Past [Table Of Contents],
2019
Fordham University
Whose Middle Ages?: Teachable Moments For An Ill-Used Past [Table Of Contents], Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O'Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe
History
Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at an undergraduate level. Each of twenty-two essays takes up an area where digging for meaning in the medieval past has brought something distorted back into the present: in our popular entertainment; in our news, our politics, and our propaganda; and in subtler ways that inform how we think about our histories, our countries, and ourselves. Each author looks to a history that has refused to remain past and uses the tools of the academy to read and re-read familiar …
The Sense Of Distance And The Perception Of The Other,
2019
Arkansas Tech University
The Sense Of Distance And The Perception Of The Other, David R. Blanks
Faculty Publications - History & Political Science
The following is a broad reflection on medieval travel and the ways in which western Christians encountered and imagined non-Christians and non-Europeans. It is interdisciplinary and multivalent, and it considers a variety of sources, both historical and literary, from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries. An especial emphasis is placed upon the ways in which these sources—including material objects—were disseminated, “read,” and interpreted. In addition to presenting an overview of who travelled and why, where they went, and how they conveyed themselves, the principle aim of this essay is to demonstrate the wide variety of medieval responses to cross-cultural encounters. …
Pirates, Merchants, And A Small Battle On The Island Of Kythira In The Later Middle Ages,
2019
Western Michigan University
Pirates, Merchants, And A Small Battle On The Island Of Kythira In The Later Middle Ages, David D. Terry
The Hilltop Review
Merchants in the later medieval Mediterranean crossed boundaries both geographical and moral. In November 1327 two Mallorcan investors complained to the king’s court that their ship, which they had sent to the eastern Mediterranean laden with tradable goods, had been ransacked by the violent natives of Kythera, an Aegean island at that time ruled by Venice. The Venetians, always conscious of maintaining good trade relations, sent representatives to the island and conducted a full investigation. After interviewing the islanders, the duke of the island sent his conclusions back to Venice: the Catalan “merchants” had come ashore on the island and …
Royalist Propaganda: Fabrication Of Magna Farta,
2019
Western Michigan University
Royalist Propaganda: Fabrication Of Magna Farta, Daniel R. Palthe
The Hilltop Review
This paper examines the perception and usage of Magna Carta in interregnum England. The central question is whether or not Oliver Cromwell ever referred to this royal document as the "Magna Farta." While one of the most common posthumous charges against him was a disdain for Magna Carta and English rights, accounts of his calling it a "Magna Farta" are questionable. The ways in which the Magna Carta was actually used under Cromwell rather seems to indicate a different opinion. Essentially, this paper compares royalist propaganda with the Commonwealth's accounts.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.55, No.1, Summer 2019,
2019
Western Michigan University
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.55, No.1, Summer 2019
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Melusine's Footprint: Tracing The Legacy Of A Medieval Myth,
2019
Rice University
Melusine's Footprint: Tracing The Legacy Of A Medieval Myth, S. C. Kaplan
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
