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The Virgin In The Hortus Conclusus: Healing The Body And Healing The Soul, Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa Jan 2015

The Virgin In The Hortus Conclusus: Healing The Body And Healing The Soul, Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


"Flourish Like A Garden": Pain, Purgatory And Salvation In The Writing Of Medieval Religious Women, Liz Herbert Mcavoy Jan 2015

"Flourish Like A Garden": Pain, Purgatory And Salvation In The Writing Of Medieval Religious Women, Liz Herbert Mcavoy

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Policing The Queer: Narratives Of Dissent And Containment In Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Roberta Magnani Jan 2015

Policing The Queer: Narratives Of Dissent And Containment In Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Roberta Magnani

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Exchanges In Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage And The Making Of The Mediterranean In Old French Romance, Kristin Burr Jan 2015

Exchanges In Exoticism: Cross-Cultural Marriage And The Making Of The Mediterranean In Old French Romance, Kristin Burr

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.1, 2014 Jan 2015

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.50, No.1, 2014

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Life And Miracles Of Saint Margaret Of Cortona (1247-1297), Pablo Garcia Acosta Jan 2015

The Life And Miracles Of Saint Margaret Of Cortona (1247-1297), Pablo Garcia Acosta

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Exhortations To Women And To Others If They Please, Lyn Blanchfield Jan 2015

Exhortations To Women And To Others If They Please, Lyn Blanchfield

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


A Handbook Of Anglo-Saxon Studies, Tracey-Anne Cooper Jan 2015

A Handbook Of Anglo-Saxon Studies, Tracey-Anne Cooper

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, And The Queerness Of Time, Christine E. Kozikowski Jan 2015

How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, And The Queerness Of Time, Christine E. Kozikowski

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Married Women And The Law In Premodern Northwest Europe, Sarah E. Hanson Jan 2015

Married Women And The Law In Premodern Northwest Europe, Sarah E. Hanson

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Nuns Literacies In Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, Claire Taylor Jones Jan 2015

Nuns Literacies In Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue, Claire Taylor Jones

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Book Of Gladness/Le Livre De Leesce, A14th Century Defense Of Women, In English And French, By Jehan Le Fevre, Charles-Louis Morand Metivier Jan 2015

The Book Of Gladness/Le Livre De Leesce, A14th Century Defense Of Women, In English And French, By Jehan Le Fevre, Charles-Louis Morand Metivier

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Beguines Of Medieval Paris: Gender, Patronage, And Spiritual Authority, Amy Livingstone Jan 2015

The Beguines Of Medieval Paris: Gender, Patronage, And Spiritual Authority, Amy Livingstone

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


"And They Shall Be Two In One Flesh": The Battle Over The Virgin's Body In The Life Of Christina Of Markyate, Alexandra Locking Jan 2015

"And They Shall Be Two In One Flesh": The Battle Over The Virgin's Body In The Life Of Christina Of Markyate, Alexandra Locking

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Liturgical Dramas For Holy Week At Barking Abbey, Anne Bagnall Yardley, Jesse D. Mann Dec 2014

The Liturgical Dramas For Holy Week At Barking Abbey, Anne Bagnall Yardley, Jesse D. Mann

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Western At War: Western Michigan College During World War Ii, Patrick Hargis Dec 2014

Western At War: Western Michigan College During World War Ii, Patrick Hargis

Honors Theses

This research paper examines the programs and policies put into action by Western Michigan College during World War II and how the war shaped the college. This research primarily utilized primary documents generated by the college’s wartime committee, President Paul Sangren, yearbooks and other ephemera. Little research has been done in this area focused on Western Michigan College, and the little research that has been done has focused on the Navy V-12 program that existed on campus at the time. While this research includes the V-12 program, as well as the various other military programs active at the time, a …


Bound By Words: Oath-Taking And Oath-Breaking In Medieval Lceland And Anglo-Saxon England, Gregory L. Laing Dec 2014

Bound By Words: Oath-Taking And Oath-Breaking In Medieval Lceland And Anglo-Saxon England, Gregory L. Laing

Dissertations

The legal and literary texts of early medieval England and Iceland share a common emphasis on truth and demonstrate its importance through the sheer volume of textual references. One of the most common applications of truth-seeking in these sources occurs in the swearing of oaths. Instances of oath-taking and oath-breaking, therefore, are critical textual loci wherein the language of swearing unites an individual’s socially constructed reputation and his personal guarantees under the careful supervision of the community. Traditionally, scholars looking at truth and attestation from the later medieval period tend to view early cases of swearing as procedural, artless, or …


Medieval Women In Film: An Annotated Handlist And Reference Guide, With Essays On Teaching The Sorceress, Virginia Blanton, Martha M. Johnson-Olin, Charlene Miller Avrich Nov 2014

Medieval Women In Film: An Annotated Handlist And Reference Guide, With Essays On Teaching The Sorceress, Virginia Blanton, Martha M. Johnson-Olin, Charlene Miller Avrich

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


U.S. And Spanish Newspapers And The Coverage Of The Land Campaign Of Cube In The Spanish-American War: June 7 - July 16, 1898, Tyler Wilson Oct 2014

U.S. And Spanish Newspapers And The Coverage Of The Land Campaign Of Cube In The Spanish-American War: June 7 - July 16, 1898, Tyler Wilson

Honors Theses

The Spanish-American War was a significant event in the history of the United States that initiated America’s imperialistic goals by spreading its economic and political influence in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and other overseas markets. In 1898, the U.S. saw its foreign and economic interests collide with Spain and its foreign policy in Cuba. This was an opportunity for the United States to expand and colonize areas of the world by challenging Spain and declaring itself as an emerging super power at the time.

The growth of journalism in the 1890s developed alongside America’s outward expansion by being the primary …


Rhetoric Of Revolt In Thirteenth-Century Castile And England, Jillian M. Bjerke Aug 2014

Rhetoric Of Revolt In Thirteenth-Century Castile And England, Jillian M. Bjerke

Masters Theses

This thesis studies the rhetoric of revolt in the thirteenth century by comparing documents and chronicles from the Barons War against Henry III of England (1258-1265) and the revolt of the Castilian nobles against Alfonso X of Castile (1271-1273). By undertaking close readings of these Latin and Castilian texts, I uncover many similar approaches to writing revolt in two roughly contemporary and little-compared rebellions. The first comparison of the two briefs submitted by the rebelling English barons to Louis IX of France for arbitration in 1264 with the purported agreement between the Castilian nobles and Alfonso X presented to Enrique …


Failure Of Democratic Consolidation: The Three Year Interlude Of Military Rule (1958-1962) In Burma, Zaw Thein Aug 2014

Failure Of Democratic Consolidation: The Three Year Interlude Of Military Rule (1958-1962) In Burma, Zaw Thein

Masters Theses

Many scholars believe that the period between 1948 when Burma won Independence and 1962 when the military took over the country from the elected civilian government as the parliamentary democracy era. During this era, there was a three-year interlude where the military leaders ruled the country as the Caretaker Government- a euphemism for the three-year military interlude. My argument is that this interlude happened due to the growing strength of the military as an institution and the decline of political parties in Burma. The strength of the military institution was due to the civil war that broke out just after …


The British Women’S Land Army: Gender, Identity, And Landscapes, Hilary M.K. Anderson Aug 2014

The British Women’S Land Army: Gender, Identity, And Landscapes, Hilary M.K. Anderson

Masters Theses

The land girls who comprised the Women’s Land Army in Great Britain during the Second World War challenged cultural assumptions regarding gender and femininity. Through their work in agriculture, social anxieties were provoked regarding proper notions of femininity and separate spheres, which left these women in conflicting positions as they carved a spot for themselves in a war torn society. In order to carry out their work in the Women’s Land Army, land girls operated at the convergence of private and public spheres in a conjoined space. Living and operating in this conjoined space enabled them to blur the ideological …


The Pagan Pudicitia Of Early Christian Roman Women, Iris Rebecca Petty Aug 2014

The Pagan Pudicitia Of Early Christian Roman Women, Iris Rebecca Petty

Masters Theses

Accessing the everyday experiences of late antique non-elite Roman women in the Latin west is limited by sources and issues of authorship. Interdisciplinary scholarship, however, has opened up new avenues in recent years through which these women’s experiences may be studied. When literary-historical questions are asked of these sources’ authors, audiences, motives and intents, the answers provide insight into the roles women and femininity played in early Christianity. By examining an array of late antique Roman representations of good classical women, a unique continuity is seen in the transition from pagan to Christian Rome. The Latin patristic writers capitalized on …


Battling The Separate Spheres: New Woman Writers And British Women Writers Of World War I, Christine Haskill Jun 2014

Battling The Separate Spheres: New Woman Writers And British Women Writers Of World War I, Christine Haskill

Dissertations

In “Battling the Separate Spheres,” I argue that New Woman writers’ interventions into gender discourse at the end of the nineteenth century shaped the feminist pacifist protests of World War I. This analysis illustrates that the discourses of gender and war are intertwined: the rise of the women’s movement in the nineteenth century was positioned as a sex war, and the gender ideology of the separate spheres helped to justify World War I. I examine two New Woman interventions into the separate spheres debates—the “sex war” of the fin de siècle. Olive Schreiner propels women into the public sphere, encouraging …


The Monastery Of Saint-Michel Du Tréport And The Borderlands Of Northeast Normandy, 1059-1270, Eric Callender Jun 2014

The Monastery Of Saint-Michel Du Tréport And The Borderlands Of Northeast Normandy, 1059-1270, Eric Callender

Masters Theses

This thesis examines the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Michel du Tréport, situated in the county of Eu in Normandy’s northeast corner, from its foundation in 1059 until the death of Louis IX of France in 1270. Utilizing as its main source base the charters in the Cartulaire de L’abbaye de Saint-Michel du Tréport of P. Laffleur de Kermaingant, this project seeks to situate the monks of Saint-Michel du Tréport within their ecclesiastical context, to understand the monastery’s lay patronage, and to examine the secular and ecclesiastical borders of northeast Normandy and the lands surrounding them, particularly the relationship of the Norman …


The Social And Cultural Meanings Of Names In Late Antique Italy, 313-604, Eric Ware Jun 2014

The Social And Cultural Meanings Of Names In Late Antique Italy, 313-604, Eric Ware

Masters Theses

This thesis examines many uses of names in Italian culture and society between the years 313 and 604. Through an anthroponymic study of names in Late Antique Italy, I explore the relationships between names and religion, social groups, gender, and language. I analyze the name patterns statistically and through micro-historical studies. This thesis argues that, contrary to studies emphasizing the late antique decline of the Roman trinominal system, Italian names demonstrated continuity with classical onomastic practices. The correlations between saint’s cults and local names and the decline of pagan names suggests that saints’ names replaced pagan ones as apotropaic names …


"Veiled With A Special Veil": Rabi'a Of Basra And The Ascetic Reconfiguration Of Identity, Olga Solovieva May 2014

"Veiled With A Special Veil": Rabi'a Of Basra And The Ascetic Reconfiguration Of Identity, Olga Solovieva

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Barking Abbey And Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship And Authority In A Female Community, Mary Dockray-Miller May 2014

Barking Abbey And Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship And Authority In A Female Community, Mary Dockray-Miller

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.49 No.2 2014 May 2014

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.49 No.2 2014

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Female Intercession And The Shaping Of Male Heroism In The Roman D’Enéas And Le Chevalier Au Lion, Gillian Adler May 2014

Female Intercession And The Shaping Of Male Heroism In The Roman D’Enéas And Le Chevalier Au Lion, Gillian Adler

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.