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Dies Legibiles V

Dies Legibiles

Welcome to the fifth volume of Dies Legibiles!

As always, I was blown away this year by the superb work undergraduate students submitted to this journal, some first forays into medieval studies and others final projects before pursuing a graduate degree in the field. If the submissions to Dies Legibiles are any indication, the next generation of medievalists are thinking deeply about the past, about which histories have been neglected, and about what those histories reveal about the present moment.

The People Of The North: Influencer Histories And Miniaturization In Eleventh-Century Italy, Evan Anthony Simonetti

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The Norman invasion of Italy in the eleventh century was a process that required political support and legitimacy for its leaders, the Hauteville dynasty. The members of this dynasty either commissioned or financed three individuals as they wrote three respective histories of the Norman conquest in order to accomplish this legitimation. In these sources, each author took inspiration from the classic works of history and poetry of the Greek and Roman world and applied symbolism and direction from their understanding of medieval Christian theology. In addition, these works catalogued examples of events, people, places, animals, and behavior as exotic objects …

“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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pierre De Vaux And Sister Perrine De Baume, Two Lives Of Saint Colette With A Selection Of Letters By, To, And About Colette, Edited And Translated By Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Marisa Michaud

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

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

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

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

Lordship And Governance By The Inheriting Countesses Of Boulogne, 1160–1260 By Heather J. Tanner, Jessica Minieri

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

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

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

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

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

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

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.

Culture Of Disease: A Historiographical Review Of The Black Death, Jack Bamford

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay ………………………………2

II. Document Selection ………………………. 22

III. Textbook Critique…………………………...32

IV. Original Textbook Entry…………………... 36