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Demonic Pedagogy And The Teaching Saint: Voice, Body, And Place In Cynewulf's Juliana, Christina M. Heckman
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 …
Passion Through Slander: Saintliness, Deviance, And Suffering By Speech In The Book Of Margery Kempe, Connor Yeck
Passion Through Slander: Saintliness, Deviance, And Suffering By Speech In The Book Of Margery Kempe, Connor Yeck
The Hilltop Review
A late medieval mystic prone to violent bouts of sobbing, Margery Kempe suffers a range of verbal abuse in her titular text, ranging from simple rumors, to outright accusations of heresy and possession. While we might accept such accusatory speech as indicative of the era and Margery’s controversial role as a public “holy woman,” further investigation reveals a narrative strongly driven by the notion of “suffering by slander,” and the weight attributed to the spoken word. The Book of Margery Kempe shows us an oral culture filled with “deviant speech,” and within its own rhetorical construction as a text, elevates …
Visionary "Staycations": Meeting God At Home In Medieval Women’S Vision Literature, Jessica Barr
Visionary "Staycations": Meeting God At Home In Medieval Women’S Vision Literature, Jessica Barr
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Medieval vision literature frequently features descriptions of supernatural travel: to Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory, or to locations that allow the visionary to receive knowledge to which she would not normally be privy. A less explored trope of this literature, however, is the travel-without-travel that occurs when the visionary’s physical location is overlaid with a transcendent mode of perception. This essay will analyze such moments of spatial transformation in late medieval visionary and hagiographic narratives. In the vitae of many medieval holy women, visions that transform the domestic sphere figure as evidence of their sanctity; in first-person visionary accounts, on the …
Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship In The Lives Of Christina Of Markyate, Margery Kempe, And Margaret Paston, S. Elizabeth Passmore
Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship In The Lives Of Christina Of Markyate, Margery Kempe, And Margaret Paston, S. Elizabeth Passmore
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Impossible Women: Aelfric's Sponsa Christi And "La Mystérique", Miranda Hodgson
Impossible Women: Aelfric's Sponsa Christi And "La Mystérique", Miranda Hodgson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Feminist Historiography As Pornography: St. Elisabeth Of Thuringia In Nazi Germany, Ulrike Wiethaus
Feminist Historiography As Pornography: St. Elisabeth Of Thuringia In Nazi Germany, Ulrike Wiethaus
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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The Martyr, The Tomb, And The Matron: Gendering The Past, 313-794, Felice Lifshitz
The Martyr, The Tomb, And The Matron: Gendering The Past, 313-794, Felice Lifshitz
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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