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Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 59.1 (2023)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 59.1 (2023)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, And Power In Northern Iberia, 1550–1800, Phyllis Zagano
The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, And Power In Northern Iberia, 1550–1800, Phyllis Zagano
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Women, Writing And Religion In England And Beyond, 650–1100, Andrew Breeze
Women, Writing And Religion In England And Beyond, 650–1100, Andrew Breeze
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Notes On Contributors
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Fighter, Player, Hunter: Queer Women And Female Agents On Secular Gothic Ivories, Emma Le Pouésard
Fighter, Player, Hunter: Queer Women And Female Agents On Secular Gothic Ivories, Emma Le Pouésard
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This essay shines a light on the previously ignored queer representations of women on Gothic secular ivories, taking as its case studies three popular iconographical themes: the Castle of Love, the game of chess, and the courtly hunt. Refusing to yield to compulsory heterosexuality when looking at the indeterminately gendered bodies that populate these objects reveals both the ivories’ inherent queerness and their potential to interrogate their own normativity. Like the romance literature that inspired the images on these objects, they represent and enforce idealized gender norms with remarkable reluctance. In particular, the author highlights overlooked depictions of female homosocial …
Reading The Books Of Margery Kempe And Alice Pyett: Attachment And Feminist Restoration In Michelle Paver's "Wakenhyrst", Laura Varnam
Reading The Books Of Margery Kempe And Alice Pyett: Attachment And Feminist Restoration In Michelle Paver's "Wakenhyrst", Laura Varnam
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article examines reading, attachment, and the restoration of female voices in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst, a 2019 novel inspired by the fifteenth-century mystic and author, Margery Kempe. The article foregrounds and analyses the author’s own response to the novel and to Paver's comments about Kempe from the perspective of Rita Felski's work on art and attachment (2020) and in the context of Carolyn Dinshaw's reading of Hope Emily Allen's championing of Margery Kempe (2012). Underpinned by a framework that draws on medievalism studies (particularly Katherine Brown's concept of 'restoration'), the article explores the ways in which Paver's two readers …
Lesbians Like Me, Judith M. Bennett
Lesbians Like Me, Judith M. Bennett
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In 1973, I was a brand new lesbian and also a brand new medievalist. This essay explores how these two strands of my life diverged and intersected over the course of my career. It has sad bits but is mostly happy. I hope it will interest many of you today, and I also hope that its story of change-for-the-better continues for all of us.
Stone Fidelity: Marriage And Emotion In Medieval Tomb Sculpture, Amy Danielle Juarez
Stone Fidelity: Marriage And Emotion In Medieval Tomb Sculpture, Amy Danielle Juarez
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Women’S Friendship In Medieval Literature, Skye Oliver
Women’S Friendship In Medieval Literature, Skye Oliver
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Apostate Nuns In The Later Middle Ages, Morgan Mcminn
Apostate Nuns In The Later Middle Ages, Morgan Mcminn
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
A Life Of Ill Repute: Public Prostitution In The Middle Ages, Amanda Scott
A Life Of Ill Repute: Public Prostitution In The Middle Ages, Amanda Scott
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Female Authorship, Patronage, And Translation In Late Medieval France: From Christine De Pizan To Louise Labé, Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Female Authorship, Patronage, And Translation In Late Medieval France: From Christine De Pizan To Louise Labé, Alani Hicks-Bartlett
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Acts Of Care: Recovering Women In Late Medieval Health, Tanya Stabler Miller
Acts Of Care: Recovering Women In Late Medieval Health, Tanya Stabler Miller
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Women, Food, And Diet In The Middle Ages: Balancing The Humors, Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson
Women, Food, And Diet In The Middle Ages: Balancing The Humors, Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Medieval Intersections: Gender And Status In Europe In The Middle Ages, Ebba Strutzenbladh
Medieval Intersections: Gender And Status In Europe In The Middle Ages, Ebba Strutzenbladh
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Cárcel De Amor / The Prison Of Love, Laura Francis, Álvaro Garrote Pascual
Cárcel De Amor / The Prison Of Love, Laura Francis, Álvaro Garrote Pascual
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
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Studying Gender In Medieval Europe: Historical Approaches, Jessica E. Zisa
Studying Gender In Medieval Europe: Historical Approaches, Jessica E. Zisa
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
"Oiez Mon Aventure": Cuer D'Acier's Nonbinary Gender In Perceforest, Brooke Heidenreich Findley
"Oiez Mon Aventure": Cuer D'Acier's Nonbinary Gender In Perceforest, Brooke Heidenreich Findley
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The character of Cuer d’Acier, or Heart of Steel, in the 15th century French romance Perceforest, has a complex gender identity that does not fit easily into a gender binary. First appearing as the courtly maiden Neronés, the character later lives and is read as a man. The romance uses both “he” and “she” pronouns to refer to Heart of Steel, often using both in the space of a single paragraph or even a single sentence. While Heart of Steel is again dressed as a woman at the end of the romance, the character’s own actions and statements …
Christine De Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy, S.C. Kaplan
Christine De Pizan: Life, Work, Legacy, S.C. Kaplan
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Selecting Authority: The Compiler And Female Mystical Sources In Speculum Devotorum, Caitlin J. Branumthrash
Selecting Authority: The Compiler And Female Mystical Sources In Speculum Devotorum, Caitlin J. Branumthrash
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The fifteenth-century Speculum devotorum, or Mirror to Devout People, is best known for incorporating the texts of mystical women into its narrative of the life of Christ, likely because it has an explicitly stated female audience—a nun of Syon. Rather than considering how the female audience may have perceived the female sources in Speculum devotorum, this article investigates the compiler’s views of his female sources based on how he incorporates them into his work. I argue that the compiler treats his female sources as full auctores, but he only includes their works when he addresses what he considers female …
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 58.2 (2023)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 58.2 (2023)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Holy Matter Making Holy Meaning: Fashioning Memory, Community And Dissimilar Similitude In Middle Dutch Sister-Books And The Book Of Margery Kempe, Godelinde G. Perk
Holy Matter Making Holy Meaning: Fashioning Memory, Community And Dissimilar Similitude In Middle Dutch Sister-Books And The Book Of Margery Kempe, Godelinde G. Perk
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
The Middle Dutch sister-books and The Book of Margery Kempe are fifteenth-century vernacular texts by women chronicling their female subjects’ conversion and arduous attempts at a holy life. They share an (auto)hagiographic enterprise and formal and thematic features, including a display of rags and riches by the vitae’s subjects and a desire for mnemonic engagement on the part of the readers with the text. This article is the first to present the Diepenveen and Deventer sister-books and the Book as conversation partners. I draw on two main conceptual tools: 1) medieval memoria and 2) the notion of “dissimilar similitude” …
Book Of The Body Politic, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Book Of The Body Politic, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Gender And Voice In Medieval French Literature And Song, Joseph P. Derosier
Gender And Voice In Medieval French Literature And Song, Joseph P. Derosier
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk And Sexual Education In Late Medieval Britain, Jenny C. Bledsoe
Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk And Sexual Education In Late Medieval Britain, Jenny C. Bledsoe
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Female Reception Of Stained Glass Images Of St. Anne In Late Medieval York: Women, Mothers, And Wives, Susanna Wyse Jackson
Female Reception Of Stained Glass Images Of St. Anne In Late Medieval York: Women, Mothers, And Wives, Susanna Wyse Jackson
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This article explores the depiction of St. Anne in the late medieval stained glass of three York parish churches. Focusing on two iconographic subjects, St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary and St. Anne with her extended family, it argues that the representation of St. Anne in these contexts speaks to the conscious orientation of iconography towards female members of the laity. Images of St. Anne may have served to reinforce specific roles and values by providing a focus for performative identification. In addition, they reflect women’s status within the family, the parish, and society as a whole. This under-explored area …
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 58.1 (2022)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal Of Gender And Sexuality 58.1 (2022)
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
The Mélusine Romance In Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation, And Material Contexts, Angela Weisl
The Mélusine Romance In Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation, And Material Contexts, Angela Weisl
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
No abstract provided.
Alchemy, The Liber Aureus, And The Erotics Of Knowledge, Kersti Francis
Alchemy, The Liber Aureus, And The Erotics Of Knowledge, Kersti Francis
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Medieval alchemy was an overwhelmingly masculine practice, and its instruction books reflect the exclusivity of its practitioners. This article examines the use of secrecy and masculine discourse in a sixteenth-century Latin alchemical handbook, the Liber aureus, to demonstrate that there exists an erotically charged tension between authors and their readers. Alchemical instruction books like the Liber aureus draw upon this tension in the service of a particular kind of gatekeeping that creates hierarchies of both knowledge and alchemical practitioners. By investigating secrecy and its provocative effects both within and beyond this manuscript, I argue that alchemical instruction books’ secretive …
The Cunning Linguist Of Agbabi’S “The Kiss”, Elan J. Pavlinich
The Cunning Linguist Of Agbabi’S “The Kiss”, Elan J. Pavlinich
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
In the Old French fabliaux tradition, sex acts and generic conventions intersect, revealing strategies of power. For example, Chaucer’s The Miller’s Tale, a Middle English text that is informed by fabliaux conventions, follows the sexual desires and exchanges of power between men, in the context of a frame narrative that privileges competition between the men of The Canterbury Tales, which is located within English literary canons dominated by men. In “The Kiss,” Patience Agbabi’s modern retelling of The Miller’s Tale, the central woman of the narrative assumes authorial control, and she privileges sex acts that empower women’s …