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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 …
Are We Queer? Are We Medieval? The Need To Be All Things To All People, Stephen Morris
Are We Queer? Are We Medieval? The Need To Be All Things To All People, Stephen Morris
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Queering Virginity , Lisa Weston
Queering Virginity , Lisa Weston
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.