Words Speak Louder Than Actions: The Power Of Vocality And Oral Communication In Medieval Viking Literature,
2019
CUNY Hunter College
Words Speak Louder Than Actions: The Power Of Vocality And Oral Communication In Medieval Viking Literature, Yasmine Abdel-Jawad
Theses and Dissertations
This paper examines the nature of oral communication within medieval Nordic societies, specifically focusing on the usage of various speech acts in classic Viking literary texts. This essay explores the language employed by Viking characters, noting the ways in which they could demonstrate their power/authority through words as well as the way in which verbal ability could either elevate or diminish one’s social status.
Searching For Medieval Lesbianism And "Lesbianistic Intimacy" Within Asexual Christian Religious Orders Of The Middle Ages: G. Unice Sue Rose And C. Super Mel Et Favum Dulciori,
2019
Clackamas High School
Searching For Medieval Lesbianism And "Lesbianistic Intimacy" Within Asexual Christian Religious Orders Of The Middle Ages: G. Unice Sue Rose And C. Super Mel Et Favum Dulciori, Isabelle Paylor
Young Historians Conference
From an era characterized by piety and a fierce hostility towards sexuality, the field of medieval lesbianism asserts that evidence of medieval 'lesbians' exist within women’s music, art, texts, and literature despite the phallocentric and theological refutations of medieval theologians and historians. Yet, even within the highly controversial and complex field, clerical lesbianism is "twice marginalized" and egregiously simplified. Where does evidence of medieval women-identified relationships within religious orders exist, what constitutes this religious lesbianism, and how should scholarship discuss medieval lesbianism? This paper answers these questions first analyzing the anonymous, 12th century love-letters G. unice sue rose and C. …
The Examination Of Inconsistencies Among The Misconception, Ideology, And Reality Of The Punishment Of Male And Female Adulterers Through Letters And Court Records,
2019
Clackamas High School
The Examination Of Inconsistencies Among The Misconception, Ideology, And Reality Of The Punishment Of Male And Female Adulterers Through Letters And Court Records, Julie Ho Lely
Young Historians Conference
Due to the misogynistic roots of history, many scholars believe that female adulterers were punished more harshly than male adulterers; however, the wholistic examination of religion, gender norms, and medieval law reveal that despite the church’s ideology of equal condemnation of male and female adulterers, in reality, male adulterers were punished more frequently than women. By addressing the misconceptions, ideologies, and realities relating to adultery, this enables us to comprehend how social norms, law, and religion mutually influence each other while also revealing inconsistencies between the different fields. This paper focuses on adultery cases in the medieval times and examines …
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.54, No.2, Winter 2018,
2019
Western Michigan University
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.54, No.2, Winter 2018
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Queen Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Political Motherhood In The Middle Ages,
2019
Boise State University
Queen Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Political Motherhood In The Middle Ages, Sherry Lynn Mason
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
Historians have frequently written on the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) although few have studied her role as an affectionate, devoted, dutiful mother. This work is an attempt to address this situation through the study of available primary sources on Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Even though she was Queen of France (1137-1152) and England (1137-1189) she was considered less important than any man of her class because of the societal norms of the time. In reality she played an important part in the Angevin Empire for the power and influence she wielded in her own right. She used this …
Necessity Rather Than Influence: The Use Of Satirical Elements By Dante Alighieri And Geoffrey Chaucer As A Result Of The Social Conditions During The Middle Ages,
2019
East Tennessee State University
Necessity Rather Than Influence: The Use Of Satirical Elements By Dante Alighieri And Geoffrey Chaucer As A Result Of The Social Conditions During The Middle Ages, Kendra Makenzie Carter
Undergraduate Honors Theses
This thesis compares the modes of satire utilized by Dante in the Divine Comedy and Chaucer in theCanterbury Tales, and considers the direct and indirect historical and religious influencers which impacted each author’s satirical style.
The Great Heathen Failure: Why The Great Heathen Army Failed To Conquer The Whole Of Anglo-Saxon England,
2019
Winthrop University
The Great Heathen Failure: Why The Great Heathen Army Failed To Conquer The Whole Of Anglo-Saxon England, Ryan Macneill
Graduate Theses
In the year 865 CE, a coalition of Viking forces combined to form an army aimed at the conquest and settlement of England. Known as The Great Heathen Army, these Vikings managed to capture most of the territory that today constitutes England with the notable exception of the English kingdom of Wessex. And so, despite many successes, they failed to conquer all of English territory. Though these events, which transpired throughout the 860s and 870s, are well documented, the Viking perspective is rarely taken into account and there has yet to have been an argument that pinpoints how and why …
Afterlives Of Rape In Medieval English Literature,
2019
University of Bern
Afterlives Of Rape In Medieval English Literature, Nicole Nyffenegger
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Monastic Women And Religious Orders In Late Medieval Bologna,
2019
Queen's University
Monastic Women And Religious Orders In Late Medieval Bologna, Margaret Aziza Pappano
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Book Of The Mutability Of Fortune By Christine De Pizan,
2019
Hamilton College
The Book Of The Mutability Of Fortune By Christine De Pizan, Roberta Krueger
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.54, No.2, Winter 2018,
2019
Western Michigan University
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.54, No.2, Winter 2018
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Opportunism & Duty: Gendered Perceptions Of Women's Involvement In Crusade Negotiation And Mediation (1147-1254),
2019
University of Canterbury, NZ
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 …
Demonic Pedagogy And The Teaching Saint: Voice, Body, And Place In Cynewulf's Juliana,
2019
Augusta University
Demonic Pedagogy And The Teaching Saint: Voice, Body, And Place In Cynewulf's Juliana, Christina M. Heckman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In Cynewulf’s Old English poem Juliana, the saint frames her encounters with her adversaries as pedagogical confrontations, refusing the lessons they attempt to “teach” her and ultimately adopting the identity of a teacher herself. These confrontations depend on three key tropes in the poem: Juliana’s voice, as a material manifestation of language deployed by the saint; her body, both as living body and as relic; and place, especially the place of the saint’s martyrdom and/or burial. Viewed through theories of material feminism, these tropes reveal diverse forms of agency in the poem, as both human and non-human agents make …
Chaucer's Pardoner: The Medieval Culture Of Cross-Dressing And Problems Of Religious Authority,
2019
Longwood University
Chaucer's Pardoner: The Medieval Culture Of Cross-Dressing And Problems Of Religious Authority, Larissa Tracy
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
One of the most ambiguous and contentious characters in Geoffrey Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Canterbury Tales is the Pardoner, the last (and arguably worst) of the pilgrims described in the General Prologue. The Pardoner accused of being a gelding or a mare endowed with several effeminate traits, plays on multiple gendered associations—including that of a cross-dressing woman. Throughout the Canterbury Tales Chaucer manipulates gender expectations and assumptions in the figure of the Pardoner without fully clarifying the Pardoner’s sex, sexuality or gender, leaving the text open to potentially subversive interpretations. By the fourteenth century, cross-dressing was a relatively common literary motif, …
“A Drunken Cunt Hath No Porter”: Medieval Histories Of Intoxication And Consent,
2019
Temple University
“A Drunken Cunt Hath No Porter”: Medieval Histories Of Intoxication And Consent, Carissa M. Harris
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay traces medieval representations of intoxication and consent and links them to contemporary cases, including Brock Turner’s 2016 rape trial and the 2017 slew of lawsuits filed against Baylor University. Through an examination of medieval texts from a range of genres, including the Biblical stories of Lot and Noah, the Digby Mary Magdalene play, proverbs, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue, the 1292 legal case of Isabella Plomet, and Robert Mannyng’s Handlyng Synne, this essay explores past views of gender, perpetrators, culpability, alcohol, and consent. It argues that victim-blaming those who have been assaulted while intoxicated has …
The Wealth Of Wives: A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual,
2019
Western Michigan University
The Wealth Of Wives: A Fifteenth-Century Marriage Manual, Olympia Pelosi
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Cristalian De Espana,
2019
Auburn University
Cristalian De Espana, Ana Grinberg
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Encyclopedia Of Medieval Literature In Britain,
2019
Yale University
The Encyclopedia Of Medieval Literature In Britain, Alexandra Reider
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory And The Environmental Imagination,
2019
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Anglo-Saxon Literary Landscapes: Ecotheory And The Environmental Imagination, Renee R. Trilling
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
A Revelation Of Purgatory,
2019
University of Texas at El Paso
A Revelation Of Purgatory, Barbara Zimbalist
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
