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Medieval Writings On Sex Between Men. Peter Damian’S “The Book Of Gomorrah” And Alain De Lille’S “The Plaint Of Nature,” By David Rollo, Kersti Francis
Medieval Writings On Sex Between Men. Peter Damian’S “The Book Of Gomorrah” And Alain De Lille’S “The Plaint Of Nature,” By David Rollo, Kersti Francis
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
A Convert’S Tale: Art, Crime, And Jewish Apostasy In Renaissance Italy, By Tamar Herzig, Lyn Blanchfield
A Convert’S Tale: Art, Crime, And Jewish Apostasy In Renaissance Italy, By Tamar Herzig, Lyn Blanchfield
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Hungry City: A Year In The Life Of Medieval Barcelona, By Marie A. Kelleher, Jessica Minieri
The Hungry City: A Year In The Life Of Medieval Barcelona, By Marie A. Kelleher, Jessica Minieri
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships, By Barbara Newman, Laura Moncion
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships, By Barbara Newman, Laura Moncion
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Christine De Pizan: Empowering Women In Text And Image, By Charlotte Cooper-Davis, Kelsey Boor
Christine De Pizan: Empowering Women In Text And Image, By Charlotte Cooper-Davis, Kelsey Boor
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Iberoamerican Neomedievalisms: “The Middle Ages” And Its Uses In Latin America, Edited By Nadia R. Altschul And Maria Ruhlmann, Emily Francomano
Iberoamerican Neomedievalisms: “The Middle Ages” And Its Uses In Latin America, Edited By Nadia R. Altschul And Maria Ruhlmann, Emily Francomano
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women And Magic In Medieval Romance: Genre, Intertextuality, And Power, By Jane Bonsall, Melissa Elmes
Women And Magic In Medieval Romance: Genre, Intertextuality, And Power, By Jane Bonsall, Melissa Elmes
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
White Before Whiteness In The Late Middle Ages, By Wan-Chuan Kao, Thelma Trujillo
White Before Whiteness In The Late Middle Ages, By Wan-Chuan Kao, Thelma Trujillo
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Chaucer And Becket’S Mother: “The Man Of Law’S Tale,” Conversion, And Race In The Middle Ages, By Meriem Pagès, Daisy E. Black
Chaucer And Becket’S Mother: “The Man Of Law’S Tale,” Conversion, And Race In The Middle Ages, By Meriem Pagès, Daisy E. Black
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Eleanor Of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth And Tales About The Medieval Queen, By Karen Sullivan, Lauren Wood
Eleanor Of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth And Tales About The Medieval Queen, By Karen Sullivan, Lauren Wood
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Introduction: Intersections Of Gender And Genres In Medieval Judaism, Christianity, And Islam, Linda G. Jones
Introduction: Intersections Of Gender And Genres In Medieval Judaism, Christianity, And Islam, Linda G. Jones
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The introductory essay describes the aims of this special volume, which are to analyze the intersections between religion and gender in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultures, as reflected in diverse pre- and early modern textual genres, and to explore the relationships between gender and genres. Toward these ends the authors interrogate how a given textual genre, as well as the gender of the author/compiler and the intended audience, might influence the representations of gender. The introductory essay summarizes the seven articles constituting the volume, highlights the points of contact and differences among them, and reflects upon their broader significance to …
“Be Only A Man": Authority, Dependency, And Masculinity In Geniza Letters Of Mothers To Their Sons, Oded Zinger
“Be Only A Man": Authority, Dependency, And Masculinity In Geniza Letters Of Mothers To Their Sons, Oded Zinger
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
One of the most exciting discoveries among the Cairo Geniza, a rich trove of ancient manuscripts discovered in the Ben Ezra Synagogue at Fustat (Old Cairo), is women’s letters. Up until the early modern period, we have no text written by a Jewish woman preserved in traditional channels of transmission—that is, manuscripts copied by scribes and preserved in libraries or personal collections. Yet the Geniza documents preserve over two hundred letters written by women in different languages and spanning several centuries. Twenty-nine of these letters are from mothers to sons. Letters from mothers to sons have some distinctive characteristics when …
The Masculinization Of Grief In Arabic Adab Literature: Ibn ‘Abd Al-Rabbih’S Al-‘Iqd Al-Farīd, Linda G. Jones
The Masculinization Of Grief In Arabic Adab Literature: Ibn ‘Abd Al-Rabbih’S Al-‘Iqd Al-Farīd, Linda G. Jones
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article explores the relationship between masculinity and literary expressions of grief in premodern Islamic cultures based on “The Book on Women Mourners, Condolences, and Elegies,” from the adab anthology, al- ‘Iqd al-farīd (The Unique Necklace), compiled by the Cordovan belletrist Ibn ‘Abd Rabbih (d. 940). While Ibn ‘Abd Rabbih’s selection of literary specimens by female authors has been studied in depth, the far more numerous examples of male-authored bereavement literature have not been analyzed in detail. Hence this article has two aims. First, it will examine the relatively neglected genres of Arab-Islamic bereavement literature featuring grieving …
Gender And Genres In The Ādāb-I Menāzil, Özgen Felek
Gender And Genres In The Ādāb-I Menāzil, Özgen Felek
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Gender and gender roles routinely appear across different genres of Islamic literature. Since each genre’s handling of the subject of gender is evaluated within the borders of that genre, studies in the field have been based on specific texts or genres. The Ādāb-ı menāzil (“Manners of the Household”), written by ʿAbdü’l-Laṭīf ibn-i Ṭurmış Ḳaramānī (d. 1516), is a unique Ottoman Turkish text that brings together the perspectives of different genres. It is a book of morals, advice, and religious knowledge written for women, as Ḳaramānī explicitly declares in the preface. The work includes Qur’anic verses, hadiths, stories, and legends …
Gender And Historiography In The Construction Of The Image Of King John And Queen Violant Of Aragon, Oriol Catalán
Gender And Historiography In The Construction Of The Image Of King John And Queen Violant Of Aragon, Oriol Catalán
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The reign of John I of Aragon (r. 1387–1396) and his second wife Violant de Bar has been often denigrated by Catalan historiography with political arguments but also because of ensuing gender debates associating the shortcomings of his reign with his supposed manly weakness. This article deconstructs both political and gendered representations of the Aragonese monarchs by distinguishing what is reasonably attributable to them from accusations motivated by the conflicts of the time and later contexts. Drawing upon the concepts of “hegemonic masculinity” and “multiple masculinities,” the article compares the gender representations of King John I and Queen Violant in …
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 61.2 (2026)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 61.2 (2026)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Conversion And The Reconfiguration Of Religious Gender Roles: Conversas And Moriscas In Late Medieval Iberia, Ivana Arsić
Conversion And The Reconfiguration Of Religious Gender Roles: Conversas And Moriscas In Late Medieval Iberia, Ivana Arsić
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This study addresses the impact of the cultural homogenization policy in late medieval Castilian and Aragonese societies by analyzing Spanish Inquisition documents through a gendered lens. Specifically, this article illustrates how these records depict the religious experiences of Conversas and Moriscas (Christian women of Jewish and Muslim origin, respectively). Whereas recent investigations within cultural studies have engaged in descriptive analysis of female conversion, this article will provide a causal explanation through a comparative gendered perspective, arguing that women’s heightened involvement in religion was particular to the context of forced conversion. Toward this end, I first examine how Jewish and Muslim …
Mary’S Granddaughters: Marian Conversion, Gender, And The Reproduction Of Religious Belief In Medieval And Early Modern Castile, Amanda Valdés Sánchez
Mary’S Granddaughters: Marian Conversion, Gender, And The Reproduction Of Religious Belief In Medieval And Early Modern Castile, Amanda Valdés Sánchez
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article explores how the conversion of Muslim women was perceived as being spurred by Mary’s love, as evidenced in Castilian Marian miracle collections, popular literature, church iconography, and missional policy. I argue that, in the context of the Castilian colonization of Muslim Iberia, Muslim women’s conversion was stimulated and imagined differently from their male counterparts. Through the analysis of post-thirteenth-century Castilian Marian miracle tales and devotional iconography, my research interrogates the role of Marian devotion in the construction of a model of religious conversion that specifically sought to convert women and children and identified Muslim women as the means …
“The Lover’S Confession”: A Translation Of John Gower’S “Confessio Amantis,” Edited And Translated By Brian Gastle And Catherine Carter With Latin Translations By Andrew Galloway, Lynn Arner
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
“Softer Than A Woman?" Gendered Images In Odo Of Cheriton’S Anti-Judaic Sermon, Jussi Hanska, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
“Softer Than A Woman?" Gendered Images In Odo Of Cheriton’S Anti-Judaic Sermon, Jussi Hanska, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article analyzes the intersection of the anti-Judaic and gendered motifs presented in English theologian and preacher Odo of Cheriton’s (d. 1246–1247) sermon for the tenth Sunday after the Holy Trinity. The sermon features an exemplum that is a distorted reinterpretation of a story originally found in Jewish historian Flavius Josephus’s Bellum iudaicum, which describes the siege and fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE. In one memorable passage Josephus tells how a Jewish woman named Mary loses her mind because of the hardships of the siege and hunger, kills and roasts her baby boy, and eats it. Yet Odo …
The Other Faces Of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness In The Global North Atlantic, By Nahir I. OtañO Gracia, Coral Lumbley
The Other Faces Of Arthur: Chivalric Whiteness In The Global North Atlantic, By Nahir I. OtañO Gracia, Coral Lumbley
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Berengaria Of Navarre: Queen Of England, Lord Of Le Mans, By Gabrielle Storey, Michael Evans
Berengaria Of Navarre: Queen Of England, Lord Of Le Mans, By Gabrielle Storey, Michael Evans
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Gender And Medieval Mysticism From India To Europe, Edited By Alexandra Verini And Abir Bazaz, Boyda Johnstone
Gender And Medieval Mysticism From India To Europe, Edited By Alexandra Verini And Abir Bazaz, Boyda Johnstone
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary In The Literature Of Medieval England, By Elizabeth Allen, Wendy Matlock
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.
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
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
No abstract provided.
Women, Dance And Parish Religion In England, 1300–1640: Negotiating The Steps Of Faith, By Lynneth Miller Renberg, Clint E. Morrison Jr
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.
Femina: A New History Of The Middle Ages, Through The Women Written Out Of It, By Janina Ramirez, Jo Koster
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.
The Once And Future Sex: Going Medieval On Women’S Roles In Society, By Eleanor Janega, Emily C. Francomano
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
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
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.