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Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary In The Literature Of Medieval England, By Elizabeth Allen, Wendy Matlock 2025 Kansas State University

Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary In The Literature Of Medieval England, By Elizabeth Allen, Wendy Matlock

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Once And Future Sex: Going Medieval On Women’S Roles In Society, By Eleanor Janega, Emily C. Francomano 2025 Georgetown University

The Once And Future Sex: Going Medieval On Women’S Roles In Society, By Eleanor Janega, Emily C. Francomano

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Women’S Literary Cultures In The Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally, Edited By Kathryn Loveridge, Liz Herbert Mcavoy, Sue Niebrzydowski, And Vicki Kay Price, Caitlin Branum Thrash 2025 Middle Tennessee State University

Women’S Literary Cultures In The Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally, Edited By Kathryn Loveridge, Liz Herbert Mcavoy, Sue Niebrzydowski, And Vicki Kay Price, Caitlin Branum Thrash

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Women, Dance And Parish Religion In England, 1300–1640: Negotiating The Steps Of Faith, By Lynneth Miller Renberg, Clint E. Morrison Jr 2025 University of Texas at Austin

Women, Dance And Parish Religion In England, 1300–1640: Negotiating The Steps Of Faith, By Lynneth Miller Renberg, Clint E. Morrison Jr

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Courtly And Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, And Medieval French Literature, By Charlie Samuelson, Anna Klosowska 2025 Miami University of Ohio

Courtly And Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, And Medieval French Literature, By Charlie Samuelson, Anna Klosowska

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Gender And The ‘Natural’ Environment In The Middle Ages, Edited By Theresa L. Tyers And Patricia Skinner, Danielle Allor 2025 Haverford College

Gender And The ‘Natural’ Environment In The Middle Ages, Edited By Theresa L. Tyers And Patricia Skinner, Danielle Allor

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Femina: A New History Of The Middle Ages, Through The Women Written Out Of It, By Janina Ramirez, Jo Koster 2025 CAS

Femina: A New History Of The Middle Ages, Through The Women Written Out Of It, By Janina Ramirez, Jo Koster

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment And Vulnerability In Literature And Film, By Usha Vishnuvajjala, Lucy Barnhouse 2025 Western Michigan University

Feminist Medievalisms: Embodiment And Vulnerability In Literature And Film, By Usha Vishnuvajjala, Lucy Barnhouse

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Caroline Bergvall’S Medievalist Poetics: Migratory Texts And Transhistorical Methods, Edited By Joshua Davies And Caroline Bergvall, Ruth Evans 2025 Saint Louis University

Caroline Bergvall’S Medievalist Poetics: Migratory Texts And Transhistorical Methods, Edited By Joshua Davies And Caroline Bergvall, Ruth Evans

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Maternal Materialities: Objects, Rituals And Material Evidence Of Medieval And Early Modern Childbirth Edited By Costanza Gislon Dopfel, Claire Kilgore 2025 Western Michigan University

Maternal Materialities: Objects, Rituals And Material Evidence Of Medieval And Early Modern Childbirth Edited By Costanza Gislon Dopfel, Claire Kilgore

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Premodern Masculinities In Transition Edited By Konrad Eisenbichler And Jacqueline Murray, Hilary Rhodes 2025 Sarah Lawrence College

Premodern Masculinities In Transition Edited By Konrad Eisenbichler And Jacqueline Murray, Hilary Rhodes

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Resistance To Love In Medieval English Romance By Hannah Piercy, Amy N. Vines 2025 UNC-Greensboro

Resistance To Love In Medieval English Romance By Hannah Piercy, Amy N. Vines

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

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Thousands And Thousands Of Lovers: Sense Of Community Among The Nuns Of Helfta By Anna Harrison, Silvia Negri 2025 University of Zurich

Thousands And Thousands Of Lovers: Sense Of Community Among The Nuns Of Helfta By Anna Harrison, Silvia Negri

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


English Women’S Spiritual Utopias, 1400–1700: New Kingdoms Of Womanhood, By Alexandra Verini, Kirsty Bolton 2025 University of Oxford

English Women’S Spiritual Utopias, 1400–1700: New Kingdoms Of Womanhood, By Alexandra Verini, Kirsty Bolton

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Nascere. Il Parto Dalla Tarda Antichità All’Età Moderna Edited By Alessandra Foscati, Costanza Gislon Dopfel, And Antonella Parmeggiani, Marjolaine Raguin 2025 Université de Liège / Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès

Nascere. Il Parto Dalla Tarda Antichità All’Età Moderna Edited By Alessandra Foscati, Costanza Gislon Dopfel, And Antonella Parmeggiani, Marjolaine Raguin

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Marian Maternity In Late-Medieval England By Mary Beth Long, Sarah Friedman 2025 Western Michigan University

Marian Maternity In Late-Medieval England By Mary Beth Long, Sarah Friedman

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Remember The Hand: Manuscription In Early Medieval Iberia By Catherine Brown, Lara Farina 2025 West Virginia University

Remember The Hand: Manuscription In Early Medieval Iberia By Catherine Brown, Lara Farina

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Women And Medieval Literary Culture: From The Early Middle Ages To The Fifteenth Century Edited By Corinne Saunders And Dianne Watt, Melissa Elmes 2025 Western Michigan University

Women And Medieval Literary Culture: From The Early Middle Ages To The Fifteenth Century Edited By Corinne Saunders And Dianne Watt, Melissa Elmes

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


“A True And Broad Sympathy:” Thomas Hughes, Medievalism, And Social Justice In The Nineteenth Century, Sarah E. Stapleton 2025 University of Kentucky

“A True And Broad Sympathy:” Thomas Hughes, Medievalism, And Social Justice In The Nineteenth Century, Sarah E. Stapleton

Theses and Dissertations--History

Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857), used medievalism to help solve social problems of the Nineteenth Century. This contravenes the traditional view of medievalism, especially Anglo-Saxonism, since others have used it to justify the subjugation of people of lower social status, namely the poor in England, enslaved African Americans in the United States, and Indians under British rule.

While the use of medievalism is veiled in Hughes’ work, the subtext of Tom Brown’s Schooldays demonstrated Hughes’ Anglo-Saxonism. Tom Brown and the intertextual material surrounding his narrative exhibit the characteristics of Anglo-Saxonism through cultural primitivism, the concept of allodial, …


“Some Small Kiss From Your Sweet Lips”: Navigating Hierarchy In Eastern Roman Letters, Nicholas Elijah Raffington 2025 University of Central Florida

“Some Small Kiss From Your Sweet Lips”: Navigating Hierarchy In Eastern Roman Letters, Nicholas Elijah Raffington

Honors Undergraduate Theses

The presence of homoeroticism in the letters of elite Byzantine men was both the product of long-term literary developments and was employed for many purposes. As a medieval society which saw a unique level of social mobility, an individual’s connections and how they managed and negotiated them within the competitive elite milieu was of utmost importance to their relevance. Letters naturally emerge as a suitable literary genre to affirm and recognize relationships, to ask for favors, or introduce a new member to the group. As the evidence suggests, homoeroticism was employed within the male-centered world of business and politics as …


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