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Rape Culture And Female Resistance In Late Medieval Literature, With An Edition Of Middle English And Middle Scots Pastourelles, Grace Delmolino
Rape Culture And Female Resistance In Late Medieval Literature, With An Edition Of Middle English And Middle Scots Pastourelles, Grace Delmolino
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Beyond The Horizons Of Desire: Salme's Subjectivity In "Salman Und Morolf", Aysha M. Strachan
Beyond The Horizons Of Desire: Salme's Subjectivity In "Salman Und Morolf", Aysha M. Strachan
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Salme in the Middle High German epic poem Salman und Morolf (twelfth–fifteenth century) is conventionally read as a wild, dangerous, animalistic object waiting to be tamed by the men who fight for her hand. An in-depth analysis of her character is long overdue, and this article argues that Salme is a pertinent example of how female figures resist being “tamed” altogether. She is the movable object of multiple bridal quests for which she is ambiguously responsible. The unreachable, exoticized, and foreignized object of men’s desire, Salme embodies the drive of the western man to possess a fantasy of the Orient, …
Embroidering “Hir Word”: The Assembly Of Ladies, Christine De Pizan, And The Medieval Écriture Féminine, Akari Kobayashi
Embroidering “Hir Word”: The Assembly Of Ladies, Christine De Pizan, And The Medieval Écriture Féminine, Akari Kobayashi
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The authorship of the anonymous Middle English poem, The Assembly of Ladies, has been a locus of long-standing critical contestation, and amidst this debate, medieval feminist scholars have continuously and cogently advocated for the poem’s female authorship. Building on these feminist scholarships and simultaneously aiming to move beyond the scope of existing studies, whose discussion has often been limited to whether the poem was written by a woman, this article makes a deliberate and experimental decision in assuming The Assembly’s female authorship and provides a particular feminist reading of the poem enabled by this assumption. This article places the …
Fictional Literary Biography, Sarah E. Novacich
Fictional Literary Biography, Sarah E. Novacich
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay examines how Lauren Groff’s novel, Matrix, creates a fictional life story for Marie de France as it minimizes the importance of the poetic corpus associated with that name. It reads this exchange of poetry for biography against a backdrop of medieval thinking about gender, language, and corporeality.
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 59.2 (2024)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 59.2 (2024)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Medieval Intersections: Gender And Status In Europe In The Middle Ages, Ebba Strutzenbladh
Medieval Intersections: Gender And Status In Europe In The Middle Ages, Ebba Strutzenbladh
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Fighter, Player, Hunter: Queer Women And Female Agents On Secular Gothic Ivories, Emma Le Pouésard
Fighter, Player, Hunter: Queer Women And Female Agents On Secular Gothic Ivories, Emma Le Pouésard
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay shines a light on the previously ignored queer representations of women on Gothic secular ivories, taking as its case studies three popular iconographical themes: the Castle of Love, the game of chess, and the courtly hunt. Refusing to yield to compulsory heterosexuality when looking at the indeterminately gendered bodies that populate these objects reveals both the ivories’ inherent queerness and their potential to interrogate their own normativity. Like the romance literature that inspired the images on these objects, they represent and enforce idealized gender norms with remarkable reluctance. In particular, the author highlights overlooked depictions of female homosocial …
Malory’S Gwenyvere And Her Ladies, Molly A. Martin
Malory’S Gwenyvere And Her Ladies, Molly A. Martin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay argues that in Malory’s Morte Darthur, Gwenyvere, like the English queens of the late medieval period, has a coterie of ladies in service who are essential to her relationship with Launcelot in particular. Their support provides a site of resistance to the male chivalric world that dominates the Arthurian community, especially when considered through the lens of female friendship, and helps the queen transgress patriarchal expectations.
Stone Fidelity: Marriage And Emotion In Medieval Tomb Sculpture, Amy Danielle Juarez
Stone Fidelity: Marriage And Emotion In Medieval Tomb Sculpture, Amy Danielle Juarez
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women’S Friendship In Medieval Literature, Skye Oliver
Women’S Friendship In Medieval Literature, Skye Oliver
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Female Authorship, Patronage, And Translation In Late Medieval France: From Christine De Pizan To Louise Labé, Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Female Authorship, Patronage, And Translation In Late Medieval France: From Christine De Pizan To Louise Labé, Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Acts Of Care: Recovering Women In Late Medieval Health, Tanya Stabler Miller
Acts Of Care: Recovering Women In Late Medieval Health, Tanya Stabler Miller
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women Religious Crossing Between The Cloister And The World: Nunneries In Europe And The Americas, Ca. 1200–1700, Alexandra Verini
Women Religious Crossing Between The Cloister And The World: Nunneries In Europe And The Americas, Ca. 1200–1700, Alexandra Verini
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women, Writing And Religion In England And Beyond, 650–1100, Andrew Breeze
Women, Writing And Religion In England And Beyond, 650–1100, Andrew Breeze
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Notes On Contributors
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women’S Public Language In The "Old English Apollonius Of Tyre", Sophia D'Ignazio
Women’S Public Language In The "Old English Apollonius Of Tyre", Sophia D'Ignazio
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article argues that the Old English Apollonius is a deliberate, complete adaptation of the Apollonius story that centers women’s learning. Read as an integral narrative, rather than a fragment, the Old English Apollonius becomes a story about Princess Arcestrate’s education and governance. Following hagiographical models, Arcestrate’s learning and virtue take center stage, with Apollonius displaced into the supporting role of teacher. The adaptation celebrates female learning as the means of moral governance and dynastic success.
Lesbians Like Me, Judith M. Bennett
Lesbians Like Me, Judith M. Bennett
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In 1973, I was a brand new lesbian and also a brand new medievalist. This essay explores how these two strands of my life diverged and intersected over the course of my career. It has sad bits but is mostly happy. I hope it will interest many of you today, and I also hope that its story of change-for-the-better continues for all of us.
Women Warriors And National Heroes: Global Histories, Misty Urban
Women Warriors And National Heroes: Global Histories, Misty Urban
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 59.1 (2023)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 59.1 (2023)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Reading The Books Of Margery Kempe And Alice Pyett: Attachment And Feminist Restoration In Michelle Paver's "Wakenhyrst", Laura Varnam
Reading The Books Of Margery Kempe And Alice Pyett: Attachment And Feminist Restoration In Michelle Paver's "Wakenhyrst", Laura Varnam
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article examines reading, attachment, and the restoration of female voices in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst, a 2019 novel inspired by the fifteenth-century mystic and author, Margery Kempe. The article foregrounds and analyses the author’s own response to the novel and to Paver's comments about Kempe from the perspective of Rita Felski's work on art and attachment (2020) and in the context of Carolyn Dinshaw's reading of Hope Emily Allen's championing of Margery Kempe (2012). Underpinned by a framework that draws on medievalism studies (particularly Katherine Brown's concept of 'restoration'), the article explores the ways in which Paver's two readers …
Apostate Nuns In The Later Middle Ages, Morgan Mcminn
Apostate Nuns In The Later Middle Ages, Morgan Mcminn
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
A Life Of Ill Repute: Public Prostitution In The Middle Ages, Amanda Scott
A Life Of Ill Repute: Public Prostitution In The Middle Ages, Amanda Scott
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, And Power In Northern Iberia, 1550–1800, Phyllis Zagano
The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, And Power In Northern Iberia, 1550–1800, Phyllis Zagano
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women, Food, And Diet In The Middle Ages: Balancing The Humors, Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson
Women, Food, And Diet In The Middle Ages: Balancing The Humors, Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Cárcel De Amor / The Prison Of Love, Laura Francis, Álvaro Garrote Pascual
Cárcel De Amor / The Prison Of Love, Laura Francis, Álvaro Garrote Pascual
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk And Sexual Education In Late Medieval Britain, Jenny C. Bledsoe
Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk And Sexual Education In Late Medieval Britain, Jenny C. Bledsoe
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Envisioning A World Without Rape In Late Fifteenth-Century Dream Narratives, Boyda J. Johnstone
Envisioning A World Without Rape In Late Fifteenth-Century Dream Narratives, Boyda J. Johnstone
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Recent scholarship has been preoccupied with questions of rape and consent in late medieval literature, partly influenced by the Me Too movement while we continue to grapple with Geoffrey Chaucer’s allegation of raptus. In such a climate, medieval texts that likewise challenge the normalization of rape in literature and society require renewed attention and critical interest. The three fifteenth-century poems I examine in this article, The Assembly of Ladies, The Floure and the Leafe, and The Isle of Ladies, push Chaucer’s dream vision tradition in a new direction, presenting us with female-centered models of cooperation, care, and governance. …
Holy Matter Making Holy Meaning: Fashioning Memory, Community And Dissimilar Similitude In Middle Dutch Sister-Books And The Book Of Margery Kempe, Godelinde G. Perk
Holy Matter Making Holy Meaning: Fashioning Memory, Community And Dissimilar Similitude In Middle Dutch Sister-Books And The Book Of Margery Kempe, Godelinde G. Perk
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The Middle Dutch sister-books and The Book of Margery Kempe are fifteenth-century vernacular texts by women chronicling their female subjects’ conversion and arduous attempts at a holy life. They share an (auto)hagiographic enterprise and formal and thematic features, including a display of rags and riches by the vitae’s subjects and a desire for mnemonic engagement on the part of the readers with the text. This article is the first to present the Diepenveen and Deventer sister-books and the Book as conversation partners. I draw on two main conceptual tools: 1) medieval memoria and 2) the notion of “dissimilar similitude” …
Gender And Voice In Medieval French Literature And Song, Joseph P. Derosier
Gender And Voice In Medieval French Literature And Song, Joseph P. Derosier
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Female Reception Of Stained Glass Images Of St. Anne In Late Medieval York: Women, Mothers, And Wives, Susanna Wyse Jackson
Female Reception Of Stained Glass Images Of St. Anne In Late Medieval York: Women, Mothers, And Wives, Susanna Wyse Jackson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article explores the depiction of St. Anne in the late medieval stained glass of three York parish churches. Focusing on two iconographic subjects, St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary and St. Anne with her extended family, it argues that the representation of St. Anne in these contexts speaks to the conscious orientation of iconography towards female members of the laity. Images of St. Anne may have served to reinforce specific roles and values by providing a focus for performative identification. In addition, they reflect women’s status within the family, the parish, and society as a whole. This under-explored area …