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Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages
This pioneering volume explores concepts of gender, sexuality, and love as portrayed in sculptures, paintings, manuscripts, and personal items to reveal the hidden sexuality and sensuality of medieval art. Using the critical approach known as queer theory, which offers a way to think more expansively about the past, the book interrogates aspects art and culture of the Middle Ages that are often overlooked, such as nonconformist sexual practices, gender variance, and power plays within human and divine relationships. Focused essays on topics and motifs such as the erotics of Saint Sebastian, transgender expression, and the underside of courtly love propose new readings of beloved masterpieces. Featuring more than 40 works of art from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, this volume not only encourages readers to reflect on the ways that sex, gender, and relationships structured medieval lives and identities, but also prompts contemplation of how such attitudes affect our understanding of these subjects in the present day.
Chaucer and Trauma
Trauma is an inescapable condition of Chaucer’s works. From the ravaging of Troy and the abandonment of Dido to the devastating aftereffects of sexual assault, Chaucer portrayed the most unsettling, searing aspects of human experience. While the term “trauma” was not part of Chaucer’s vocabulary, the author was assuredly aware of its causes and consequences, its victims and symptoms. This timely volume explores depictions of violence, victimhood, and overwhelming grief or loss in Chaucer’s most ambitious texts, Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury Tales. The authors examine layers of deep emotional suffering in Chaucer’s works, as well as those forces that perpetrate injustice...
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.
Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts
Deeply informed and lavishly illustrated, Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts is a comprehensive introduction to the modern study of Middle English manuscripts. It is intended for students and scholars who are familiar with some of the major Middle English literary works, such as The Canterbury Tales, Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, and the romances, mystical works or cycle plays, but who may not know much about the surviving manuscripts. The book approaches these texts in a way that takes into account the whole manuscript or codex—its textual and visual contents, physical state, readership, and cultural history. Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts also explores the functio...
Tempting the Tempter
Tempting the Tempter considers how far fifteenth-century Italian mystics would go to imitate Christ, even in his encounters with the Devil in the desert. Elena of Udine, Caterina of Bologna, and Colomba of Rieti created their own desert experience through their austere devotional practices, and they suffered and overcame temptations from the Devil. This work explores how these women actively pursued encounters with the Devil, and how these private temptations prepared them for a public ministry of miracles, contributed to their perception as living saints, and allowed their biographers to promote them as true imitators of Christ, worthy of sainthood.
An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics
Understanding a medieval poetry genre through modern translations, commentary, and the role of performance Middle English lyrics are anonymous short poems that were composed between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. They address a range of themes, both secular and religious, and usually emphasize the author’s personal relationship to the subject matter. In this introduction to the genre, William Quinn offers an overview of the large body of work, identifying common features and trends over time and discussing select examples in detail. Quinn argues that Middle English lyrics are best understood when read as emotional performances and guides readers through the poems’ expressions of jo...
Father Chaucer and the Apologists
On May 4, 1380, Cecily Chaumpaigne filed a quitclaim with the Chancery in Westminster, releasing the poet Geoffrey Chaucer from any prosecution de raptu meo (on account of my rape). This legal document, lost for centuries, has haunted Chaucer studies since its rediscovery in 1873. Over the past 150 years since it reemerged, many Chaucer scholars have sought to discount, sanitize, or excuse the release. Through a careful examination of the long Chaucer historiography, Sarah Baechle shows how critics have read the question of Chaucer’s potential culpability for rape through prevailing attitudes toward sexual violence. They did so, moreover, in ways that will be very familiar to contemporary ...
Rape Culture and Female Resistance in Late Medieval Literature
A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivors' speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle as well as in related literary works.
Écrire l’histoire du harcèlement sexuel sur la longue durée
Issu du projet AVISA (2020-2022), qui a entamé une recherche collective et pluridisciplinaire autour des phénomènes sociaux réunis, aujourd’hui, sous l’appellation générique de « harcèlement sexuel », ce volume aborde la question sous l’angle de la mise en mots et de la mise en images de cette violence sexuelle dans la littérature, le cinéma, les arts et à la télévision. Il envisage un large spectre temporel (de l’Antiquité gréco-latine à l’affaire Harvey Weinstein inculpé en 2018) ainsi que géographique (le monde occidental de la Grèce aux États-Unis d’Amérique). Il dresse un bilan des enjeux que représente, pour les différentes disciplines associées, le choix d’étudier l’épineuse question du « harcèlement sexuel » qui demeure un impensé du droit jusqu’au dernier quart du XXe siècle. Il propose ensuite des contributions à l’histoire du harcèlement sexuel par le biais de représentations qui interrogent la participation des sources mobilisées pour la construction d’une culture de la violence sexuelle.
New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies and Reading Practices
This is a volume of essays showcases new research and complexities in interdisciplinary manuscript studies in honor of Derek Pearsall.
