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Founding Feminisms In Medieval Studies: Essays In Honor Of E. Jane Burns, Felice Lifshitz
Founding Feminisms In Medieval Studies: Essays In Honor Of E. Jane Burns, Felice Lifshitz
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Oxford Handbook Of Women And Gender In Medieval Europe, Jacqueline Murray
The Oxford Handbook Of Women And Gender In Medieval Europe, Jacqueline Murray
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Strange Case Of Ermine De Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons And Saints, Mary Anne Gonzales
The Strange Case Of Ermine De Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons And Saints, Mary Anne Gonzales
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Space Between A Wound And A Scar: The Negotiation Of Heroic Identity In Gregory Of Nyssa's Life Of Macrina, Jaimie Gunderson
The Space Between A Wound And A Scar: The Negotiation Of Heroic Identity In Gregory Of Nyssa's Life Of Macrina, Jaimie Gunderson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
"Slayn For Goddys Lofe": Margery Kempe's Melancholia And The Bleeding Of Tears, Laura Kalas Williams
"Slayn For Goddys Lofe": Margery Kempe's Melancholia And The Bleeding Of Tears, Laura Kalas Williams
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Sexual Culture In The Literature Of Medieval Britain, Christopher Flavin
Sexual Culture In The Literature Of Medieval Britain, Christopher Flavin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Joan De Valence: The Life And Influence Of A Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman, Jitske Jasperse
Joan De Valence: The Life And Influence Of A Thirteenth-Century Noblewoman, Jitske Jasperse
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Silencing Female Reason In Boccaccio’S Teseida Delle Nozze D’Emilia, Margaret Franklin
Silencing Female Reason In Boccaccio’S Teseida Delle Nozze D’Emilia, Margaret Franklin
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The legendary Amazons of antiquity threatened social institutions that relied on communal adherence to the assumption of inherent female limitations, and confrontation between these viragoes and classical heroes provided a fruitful arena for exploring gender politics. Giovanni Boccaccio contributed to this tradition with a unique restaging of Amazonomachy and its consequences in his Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia (1339-1341?). While modern critical consensus holds that Teseo’s subjugation of the Amazons redounds both to his heroism in particular and the wellbeing of society in general, I argue that his unyielding repudiation of their desires and objectives is problematized throughout the text. These …
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Mistrusting The Historiography Of Royal Mothers: Louis Of Savoy And Catherine De Medici, Kathleen Wellman
Mistrusting The Historiography Of Royal Mothers: Louis Of Savoy And Catherine De Medici, Kathleen Wellman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Louise of Savoy, mother of Francis I, and Catherine de Medici, mother of the last three reigning Valois kings—Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III—were two sixteenth-century women whose maternity gave them access to power and provided the foundation for their claims to exercise it legitimately. While their contemporaries either accepted or contested those claims, some nineteenth-century critics vehemently rejected female rule, particularly by mothers. Modern scholars have left those nineteenth-century repudiations largely unquestioned.
What Do We Mean By "Women And Power"?, Marie A. Kelleher
What Do We Mean By "Women And Power"?, Marie A. Kelleher
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay considers the question of how we define “power” in order to best include women and gender. Queenship/lordship studies have been at the forefront of women-and-power discussions, and have advanced that discussion by moving away from the “exceptional woman” biographies to focus on the patterns of power that these women embodied. But if we extend our definition of power beyond the realm of public authority to a more general category of acts that can shape the destinies of others, we are confronted with a much broader field of action that might be considered “women’s power” — a field that …
Literary Heiresses And Historical Countesses In Thirteenth-Century France: Some Methodological Notes, Kathy M. Krause
Literary Heiresses And Historical Countesses In Thirteenth-Century France: Some Methodological Notes, Kathy M. Krause
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Woman And Power: Thoughts Arising Out Of The Roundtable "Debating Women And Power In The Middle Ages," International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 2014, Penelope Nash
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Questions are asked about how we study medieval women in positions of power, with particular reference to elite Italian and German women in the earlier Middle Ages. The essay calls for scholars to search for nuances in former understandings of women’s opportunities to exercise power while re-examining locality, time period, life cycles, and female and male power. The essay includes an appeal to scholars to become better acquainted with the work of their peers who write in other languages.
Contemplating Royal Women's Access To Power And The Transition Between The Middle Ages And The "Monstrous Regiment" Of The Early Modern Era, Elena Woodacre
Contemplating Royal Women's Access To Power And The Transition Between The Middle Ages And The "Monstrous Regiment" Of The Early Modern Era, Elena Woodacre
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This paper considers the factors which enabled women to access power via developing mechanisms for royal succession in medieval Europe and how this access was mediated through partnership with co-rulers, including consorts, sons and other co-opted family members and councilors. Finally the paper considers the relationship between the female rulers of the Middle Ages and the famous "Monstrous Regiment" in Early Modern Europe.
Where Do We Go From Here? Some Thoughts On Power And Gender In The Middle Ages, Theresa Earenfight
Where Do We Go From Here? Some Thoughts On Power And Gender In The Middle Ages, Theresa Earenfight
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Current research on queens exposes the biased weaknesses in much of the scholarly work on monarchy and reveals that queens were hardly exceptional. By examining monarchy as a family affair, rather than that of a man alone on the throne, it is clear that queens and noblewomen were fundamental to the operations of monarchy. Taking this meta-discourse of monarchy into account reveals a complex network of affiliations that were obscured by generations of scholars who focused only the deeds of men and thus regarded a woman in power as exceptional.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51 No.2 2016
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51 No.2 2016
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Beyond Women And Power: Looking Backward And Moving Forward, Kathy M. Krause
Beyond Women And Power: Looking Backward And Moving Forward, Kathy M. Krause
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Queenship Studies Comes Of Age, Lois L. Huneycutt
Queenship Studies Comes Of Age, Lois L. Huneycutt
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Recalculating The Equation: Powerful Woman = Extraordinary, Amy Livingstone
Recalculating The Equation: Powerful Woman = Extraordinary, Amy Livingstone
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Powerful Women And Misogynistic Subplots: Some Comments On The Necessity Of Checking The Primary Sources, Tracy Adams
Powerful Women And Misogynistic Subplots: Some Comments On The Necessity Of Checking The Primary Sources, Tracy Adams
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Many women formerly regarded as harridans, vixens, or worse by historians throughout the ages have been rehabilitated in recent years. It is therefore discouraging to find old narratives of female promiscuity, intriguing, incompetence, frivolity, cupidity, obesity) continuing to circulate, in the form of what we might think of as female "subplots" in larger histories. When the woman in question is not the star of the study she is often subject to outdated stereotypes gleaned from old studies. This essay, focusing on a number of very recent subplots that recycle verifiably incorrect assumptions about Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435), queen of mad …
Mistresses And Merveilleuses: The Historiographical Record On Female Political Players Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Christine Adams
Mistresses And Merveilleuses: The Historiographical Record On Female Political Players Of The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Christine Adams
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Modern historians have found it difficult to disrupt the narrative inherited from past scholars, who argued that even prominent women lacked any genuine political role in the early modern world. However, in many ways, the personal influence that women exercised in court and salon society was highly political, as was that of men. An examination of the power of highly visible women, for example, famous mistresses such as Madame de Montespan and Madame Tallien, suggests that historians should broaden their understanding of the “political” and more carefully interrogate the activities of female historical figures, rejecting the moralistic accounts that have …
Archives From Houses Of Cistercian Nuns And Their Evidence For Powerful Thirteenth-Century Secular Women, Constance H. Berman
Archives From Houses Of Cistercian Nuns And Their Evidence For Powerful Thirteenth-Century Secular Women, Constance H. Berman
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay examines documents from abbeys of Cistercian nuns in northern France. The documents reveal the presence of numerous women of power and authority as founders and patrons of those women's houses. Where some women were acting as widows or regents, others had access to sufficient funds for acts of patronage and foundation because they were heiresses. Here those named Matilda from the ecclesiastical province of Sens in northern France are underlined, showing the diversity of female wealth and power.
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51 No.2 2016
Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51 No.2 2016
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51, No.1, 2015
Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51, No.1, 2015
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The War Of The Two Jeannes And The Role Of The Duchess In Lordship In The Fourteenth Century, Katrin E. Sjursen
The War Of The Two Jeannes And The Role Of The Duchess In Lordship In The Fourteenth Century, Katrin E. Sjursen
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In the mid-fourteenth century, two women headed opposing parties in a civil war for control of the duchy of Brittany in France. Conventional scholarship explains their involvement in politics and warfare as exceptions possible only during emergencies. Contemporary chronicles and the letters of the two women themselves, however, tell another story, one in which these two women participated in politics and warfare even before their husbands entered captivity. Their participation makes sense if we recognize that medieval society understood lordship as a form of shared governance performed by a noble couple. While separate roles did exist for the husband and …
Reginal Intercession And The Case Of Cristina, Convicted Murderer, Katherine Allocco
Reginal Intercession And The Case Of Cristina, Convicted Murderer, Katherine Allocco
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In the winter of 1328-1329, Cristina, widow of Thomas Scot, potter of London, was convicted, imprisoned in Newgate and sentenced to hang for the crime of murdering her husband. Her execution was delayed due to her pregnancy. In January or February 1329, Cristina sent a letter to Isabella of France, queen mother, requesting a King’s pardon. On March 2, Edward III pardoned Cristina, at his mother’s request, through letters patent. It appears that Isabella, who had an established reputation as an intercessor for both personal petitions and general political appeals, had successfully interceded on Cristina’s behalf. Although medieval queens- both …
Kingship And Masculinity In Late Medieval England, Jennifer Thibodeaux
Kingship And Masculinity In Late Medieval England, Jennifer Thibodeaux
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Back Matterr, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51, No.1, 2015
Back Matterr, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.51, No.1, 2015
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Unrivalled Influence: Women And Empire In Byzantium, Hailey Lavoy
Unrivalled Influence: Women And Empire In Byzantium, Hailey Lavoy
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.