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Miraculous Monstrosity: Birth And Female Sexuality In The Illuminated Scivias And Cloisters Apocalypse, Jenna M. Mckellips
Miraculous Monstrosity: Birth And Female Sexuality In The Illuminated Scivias And Cloisters Apocalypse, Jenna M. Mckellips
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This paper compares the illuminations in two medieval apocalypses, the Cloisters Apocalypse and Hildegard von Bingen’s Scivias, to inspect their similar constructions of female sexuality, motherhood, and monstrosity. It first analyzes the monstrosity of female sexual organs found in Hildegard’s portrayal of the Church and the Mother of the Antichrist. The paper then goes on to consider the uncanny slippage between images of birth and death in the Cloisters’s depiction of John and the Woman of Revelation 12. Ultimately, the paper not only explores the monstrosity of female bodies in apocalyptic manuscripts, but also concludes that medieval women’s …
Precarious Manhood: Adolescence And Group Rape In Late Medieval Europe, Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Precarious Manhood: Adolescence And Group Rape In Late Medieval Europe, Michelle Armstrong-Partida
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Sexual assault, through coercion or violence, was omnipresent at every level of medieval society and perpetrated by males from all socio-economic backgrounds. This article argues that a specific type of sexual violence—group rape—committed by two or more individuals, was a phase of men’s social development. It explores the connection between adolescence and sexual aggression to show that collective rape was a feature of male youth culture used a form of recreation to gain sexual experience, forge bonds with peers, and publicly prove masculinity as adolescents transitioned from childhood to adulthood. Many young males first learned to rape in groups before …
Disordered Women? The Hospital Sisters Of Mainz And Their Late Medieval Identities, Lucy C. Barnhouse
Disordered Women? The Hospital Sisters Of Mainz And Their Late Medieval Identities, Lucy C. Barnhouse
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Debates over the identity of women’s religious communities have exercised historians no less than late medieval canonists and officials. Even as the legal regulation of such communities increased, so, paradoxically, did the diversity of forms that such communities took. Although these trends have been the subject of much historical attention, the division of mixed-gender hospital communities which occurred across Europe in the thirteenth century has not hitherto been integrated into such studies. I attempt to redress this lacuna by examining the contested religious identity of the hospital sisters of Mainz. Forced to leave the mixed-gender staff of the city’s Heilig …
Opportunism & Duty: Gendered Perceptions Of Women's Involvement In Crusade Negotiation And Mediation (1147-1254), Gordon M. Reynolds
Opportunism & Duty: Gendered Perceptions Of Women's Involvement In Crusade Negotiation And Mediation (1147-1254), Gordon M. Reynolds
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Women’s involvement in negotiation and mediation during the Middle Ages has received close scrutiny. However, few scholars have concentrated their investigations on the trends in female-led negotiations during the crusades in the Near East, and the significance of the religious connotations of such leadership in this theatre. There were dramatic societal shifts in the Latin East during the twelfth-thirteenth centuries, most significantly in the aftermath of the Battle of Hattin and loss of Jerusalem in 1187. The destruction of much of the Latin East’s crusader states that followed Jerusalem’s fall displaced many individuals, and with a plethora of Christian nobles …
Depending On Sex? Tongue, Sieve, And Ladle Shaped Pendants From Late Iron Age Gotland, Meghan P. Mattsson Mcginnis
Depending On Sex? Tongue, Sieve, And Ladle Shaped Pendants From Late Iron Age Gotland, Meghan P. Mattsson Mcginnis
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Artifacts of female dress such as brooches and pendants have long been objects of interest to scholars of late Iron Age /early medieval Scandinavia. They figure in dating and tracing stylistic developments, and their presence is often (controversially) used to help assign gender to burials. There are three types of pendants which constitute a type of feminine adornment unique to Viking Age Gotland: the so-called tongue, sieve, and ladle pendants. The purpose of this paper is to examine these pendant types and the possible symbolic and magical functions behind their forms and manner of use, and how these functions intersected …
Gender And Genre In La Estoire De Seint Aedward Le Rei: Reading Versions Of Medieval Queenship, Alexandra Verini
Gender And Genre In La Estoire De Seint Aedward Le Rei: Reading Versions Of Medieval Queenship, Alexandra Verini
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
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.
"Veiled With A Special Veil": Rabi'a Of Basra And The Ascetic Reconfiguration Of Identity, Olga Solovieva
"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.
Alison’S Antithesis In The Marriage Of Sir Gawain, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo
Alison’S Antithesis In The Marriage Of Sir Gawain, Kristin Bovaird-Abbo
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Par Fiance Bien Tenir: Medieval Same-Sex Kinship And Sworn Brotherhood In Le Roman De Thèbes, Elizabeth Hubble
Par Fiance Bien Tenir: Medieval Same-Sex Kinship And Sworn Brotherhood In Le Roman De Thèbes, Elizabeth Hubble
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Par fiance bien tenir: Medieval Same-Sex Kinship and Sworn Brotherhood in Le Roman de Thèbes This article adds to the growing archive on medieval same-sex unions by examining an overlooked scene in an often overlooked early medieval French romance, the mid-twelfth-century Roman de Thèbes. An Old French rewriting of Statius’ Latin epic, The Thebaid, Thèbes features a formal ceremony of sworn brotherhood between two of the main characters, the knights Polynices and Tydeus. In contrast to the slightly later Roman d’Enéas, Thèbes does not counter such same-sex bonds with a heterosexual love relationship. Rather, Thèbes posits competing constructions of masculinity …
Gender And The Fate Of Julian’S Short Text, Rebecca June
Gender And The Fate Of Julian’S Short Text, Rebecca June
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Gender and the Fate of Julian’s Short Text Most studies of Julian of Norwich’s Showings juxtapose her Short and Long texts, with a marked lack of enthusiasm for the Short Text in contrast to its longer, revised form thought to be textually and theologically superior. This essay asks what is at stake in the rigorous defense of Julian’s Long Text and argues that the issue of gender is central both to its revisions and to its favorable reception. The most noted revision related to gender in the Long Text is the addition of its maternal Jesus, characterized as redemptive of …
Representations Of Eve In Antiquity And The English Middle Ages, Misty Urban
Representations Of Eve In Antiquity And The English Middle Ages, Misty Urban
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Letters To Francesco Datini, Lyn A. Blanchfield
Letters To Francesco Datini, Lyn A. Blanchfield
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Queenship And Voice In Medieval Northern Europe, Katrin E. Sjursen
Queenship And Voice In Medieval Northern Europe, Katrin E. Sjursen
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.48 No.2 2013
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.48 No.2 2013
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.48 No.2 2012
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.48 No.2 2012
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Loving Friendship In Baudri Of Bourgueil's Poetic Correspondence With The Women Of Le Ronceray, Holle Canatella
Loving Friendship In Baudri Of Bourgueil's Poetic Correspondence With The Women Of Le Ronceray, Holle Canatella
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Mischief In Masculinity: Gender In John Lydgate's Troy Book, Lindsey Simon-Jones
Mischief In Masculinity: Gender In John Lydgate's Troy Book, Lindsey Simon-Jones
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Anne Bulkeley And Her Book: Fashioning Female Piety In Early Tudor England, Mary Beth Long
Anne Bulkeley And Her Book: Fashioning Female Piety In Early Tudor England, Mary Beth Long
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Theologizing Gender In The Rothschild Canticles, Jennifer Freeman
Theologizing Gender In The Rothschild Canticles, Jennifer Freeman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Saints Edith And Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, And Their Late Medieval Audiences, Lisa Weston
Saints Edith And Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, And Their Late Medieval Audiences, Lisa Weston
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Lady, Hero, Saint: The Digby Play’S Mary Magdalene, Lindsey Simon-Jones
Lady, Hero, Saint: The Digby Play’S Mary Magdalene, Lindsey Simon-Jones
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women From The Golden Legend: Female Authority In A Medieval Catalan Sanctoral, Denise K. Filios
Women From The Golden Legend: Female Authority In A Medieval Catalan Sanctoral, Denise K. Filios
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Lesbian Premodern, Jessica A. Boon
The Lesbian Premodern, Jessica A. Boon
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Medieval French Miracle Plays: Seven Falsely Accused Women, Jonathan Stavsky
Medieval French Miracle Plays: Seven Falsely Accused Women, Jonathan Stavsky
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement And Its Reform In Thirteenth-Century Champagne, Jennifer L. Stemmle
Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement And Its Reform In Thirteenth-Century Champagne, Jennifer L. Stemmle
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Middle-Aged Women In The Middle Ages, Linda E. Mitchell
Middle-Aged Women In The Middle Ages, Linda E. Mitchell
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-Judicial Confinement And Abduction Of Women In England, C. 1170-1509, Lizabeth J. Johnson
Imprisoning Medieval Women: The Non-Judicial Confinement And Abduction Of Women In England, C. 1170-1509, Lizabeth J. Johnson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Transforming Memories In Contemporary Women's Rewriting, Liz Herbert Mcavoy
Transforming Memories In Contemporary Women's Rewriting, Liz Herbert Mcavoy
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.48 No.1 2012
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.48 No.1 2012
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.