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Depending On Sex? Tongue, Sieve, And Ladle Shaped Pendants From Late Iron Age Gotland, Meghan P. Mattsson Mcginnis Jun 2017

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 …


“Clamor Validus” Vs. “Fragilitas Sexus Feminei”: Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim On The Agency Of Women, Caroline Jansen Jun 2017

“Clamor Validus” Vs. “Fragilitas Sexus Feminei”: Hrotsvit Of Gandersheim On The Agency Of Women, Caroline Jansen

Masters Theses

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim has generated interest among scholars of gender and sexuality due to her status as a woman and writer of Latin legends, epics, and plays in the Ottonian Empire. As the only prominent female playwright of her time, Hrotsvit presents an intriguing, complex treatment of female characters and their sexuality, particularly her plays, which rework both well-known lives of female saints and the tropes of the Roman playwright Terence’s comedies. One issue that has not been fully addressed, however, is the gendering of the heroines populating Hrotsvit’s plays—while some scholars refer to the characters as “overcoming femininity” others …


Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52, No.2 2017 Jun 2017

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52, No.2 2017

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, Letters To Her Sons (1447-147)), Lynn Blanchfield Jun 2017

Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi, Letters To Her Sons (1447-147)), Lynn Blanchfield

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Learning To Die In London, 1380-1540, Wendy A. Matlock Jun 2017

Learning To Die In London, 1380-1540, Wendy A. Matlock

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Experience Of Beauty In The Middle Ages, Bonnie Millar Jun 2017

The Experience Of Beauty In The Middle Ages, Bonnie Millar

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Politics Of Ecology: Land, Life, And Law In Medieval Britain, Linda E. Mitchell Jun 2017

The Politics Of Ecology: Land, Life, And Law In Medieval Britain, Linda E. Mitchell

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52, No.2 2017 Jun 2017

Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52, No.2 2017

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Invisible Injuries: The Salvific And Sacramental Roles Of Christina Mirabilis, Sarah Macmillan Jun 2017

Invisible Injuries: The Salvific And Sacramental Roles Of Christina Mirabilis, Sarah Macmillan

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

The Life of Christina Mirabilis depicts a series of self-inflicted torments which are seemingly unique in medieval devotional literature in that they leave no outward evidence on her body. This essay examines the self-healing nature of Christina's wounds and the importance of their invisibility in a culture which typically emphasises the visibility of the broken body. It considers the ways in Christina’s resurrected body (in both the Latin (c. 1232) and English (c. 1420) versions of her Life) contributes to thirteenth and fifteenth-century purgatorial and Eucharistic theologies, and suggests a correlation between the bodies of Christina and Christ which …


Visionary "Staycations": Meeting God At Home In Medieval Women’S Vision Literature, Jessica Barr Jun 2017

Visionary "Staycations": Meeting God At Home In Medieval Women’S Vision Literature, Jessica Barr

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

Medieval vision literature frequently features descriptions of supernatural travel: to Hell, Heaven, and Purgatory, or to locations that allow the visionary to receive knowledge to which she would not normally be privy. A less explored trope of this literature, however, is the travel-without-travel that occurs when the visionary’s physical location is overlaid with a transcendent mode of perception. This essay will analyze such moments of spatial transformation in late medieval visionary and hagiographic narratives. In the vitae of many medieval holy women, visions that transform the domestic sphere figure as evidence of their sanctity; in first-person visionary accounts, on the …


Royal Mothers And Their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority From Antiquity To The Early Modern Era, Kara Larson Maloney Jun 2017

Royal Mothers And Their Ruling Children: Wielding Political Authority From Antiquity To The Early Modern Era, Kara Larson Maloney

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Books And Life Of Judith Of Flanders, Amy Livingstone Jun 2017

The Books And Life Of Judith Of Flanders, Amy Livingstone

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives In The European Middle Ages, Kara Larson Maloney Jun 2017

A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives In The European Middle Ages, Kara Larson Maloney

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Book Of Margery Kempe, Summer Santos Webber Jun 2017

The Book Of Margery Kempe, Summer Santos Webber

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Imagining The Parish In Late Medieval England, Janelle Werner Jun 2017

Imagining The Parish In Late Medieval England, Janelle Werner

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


The Anchoress: A Novel, Kellyann Fitzpatrick Jun 2017

The Anchoress: A Novel, Kellyann Fitzpatrick

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Juan Rodríguez Del Padrón, Triunfo De Las Donas / The Triumph Of Ladies, Emily C. Francomano Dec 2016

Juan Rodríguez Del Padrón, Triunfo De Las Donas / The Triumph Of Ladies, Emily C. Francomano

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

The Triunfo de las donas (The Triumph of Ladies) (1438-1441) by Juan Rodríguez del Padrón (fl. 1440s), is among the very first contributions in Hispanic literature to the pro-feminine modality of the querelle des femmes, or querella de las mujeres. Composed as the preface and dedication to María of Aragón (1396-1445), queen consort of Juan II of Castile (1405-1454), for Rodríguez del Padrón's Cadira de honor (The Seat of Honor), a treatise in defense of noble lineages, the Triunfo de las donas asserts the superiority of women over men, and in so doing, the supremacy of Queen María …


Sexual Culture In The Literature Of Medieval Britain, Christopher Flavin Sep 2016

Sexual Culture In The Literature Of Medieval Britain, Christopher Flavin

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.


Founding Feminisms In Medieval Studies: Essays In Honor Of E. Jane Burns, Felice Lifshitz Sep 2016

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 Sep 2016

The Oxford Handbook Of Women And Gender In Medieval Europe, Jacqueline Murray

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 Sep 2016

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.


The Strange Case Of Ermine De Reims: A Medieval Woman Between Demons And Saints, Mary Anne Gonzales Sep 2016

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.


Back Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016 Sep 2016

Back 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 Sep 2016

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 …


Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016 Sep 2016

Front Matter, Medieval Feminist Forum, V.52 No.1 2016

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 Sep 2016

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 Sep 2016

"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.


Neidhart: Selected Songs From The Riedegg Manuscript: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Mgf 1062, Kathryn Starkey, Edith Wenzel Aug 2016

Neidhart: Selected Songs From The Riedegg Manuscript: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Mgf 1062, Kathryn Starkey, Edith Wenzel

TEAMS Medieval German Texts in Bilingual Editions

The medieval German poet called Neidhart is one of the most important poets of his time. Set in the village among peasant maidens and their boorish male counterparts, Neidhart's satirical songs stand in marked contrast to courtly love song and enrich our understanding of medieval literary culture. This book presents for the first time annotated English translations of a substantial collection of songs attributed to this prolific poet. Its source is the thirteenth-century Riedegg manuscript, the oldest extensive collection of songs attributed to Neidhart. This book presents a representative survey of the songs in order to make this material accessible …


Ransoming For The Faith: Medieval Perceptions Of The Role Of Mercedarians In Catalan Society, Spencer Thomas Hunt Aug 2016

Ransoming For The Faith: Medieval Perceptions Of The Role Of Mercedarians In Catalan Society, Spencer Thomas Hunt

Masters Theses

The Medieval advent of institutionalized religious ransoming marked a clear shift in popular concern for captive aid. The present study examines the Catalan based Order of Merced in an attempt to reevaluate the role of religious ransoming in Christian communities. This project reconstructs internal and external perceptions of the Mercedarian brothers and their chosen vocation of ransoming through an analysis of contemporaneous discourse about the order and patterns of lay engagement with the brothers. The first section utilizes published collections of papal and royal records. These documents, combined with the polemic and apologetic texts of the thirteenth-century Christian author Pedro …


Agents Of Justice: Female Plaintiffs In The King’S Court In Thirteenth And Fourteenth-Century England, J. Savannah Shipman Aug 2016

Agents Of Justice: Female Plaintiffs In The King’S Court In Thirteenth And Fourteenth-Century England, J. Savannah Shipman

Masters Theses

It has often been assumed that medieval women, noble or common, had little or no agency, were forced into submissive roles by dominating men, and had little control over their day-to-day lives. Theoretical statements about law served to support these assumptions as they forbade women from prosecuting men for any crimes other than the murder of her husband or for rape. Yet the records of the court proceedings before the king and his justices and the Calendar of Patent Rolls paint a very different picture. The sources themselves show that women regularly came to court to gain compensation and justice …