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A Background to Women’s Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have seen a sustained recovery of women’s writing across the Globe. Yet despite this process of reclamation,...
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Age Identity in Old and Middle English Literature
The study of aging in medieval literature has flourished in the later twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and a great deal of scholarship has...
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Sacrilegious bodies: Gender, race, and medieval dance in nineteenth-century missions
Through pairing a study of vernacular religious texts from late medieval England with a case study focused on Baptist mission work and conflicts over...
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Gender and Identity
As a genre that weaves together the narratives of a male and a female artist, the dual artist novel offers an exceptionally promising way to explore...
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Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalism
Beer and Brewing in Medieval Culture and Contemporary Medievalismis a cross-cultural analysis of the role that alcohol consumption played in...
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Medieval Mobilities Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements
This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people,...
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The Late Middle Ages
This section outlines medieval theories of social structure and rigid social hierarchy in the period of transition from late feudalism to emergent...
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Anthems in Middle Childhood: Negotiating Musical Experiences and National Identities
Music is an omnipresent part of life for elementary school students in much of the United States. The music they engage with throughout the school...
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Fictitious waters: Ottoman marvels, fiction, and gender
This article focuses on the narration of a marvel, the story of the Fountain of Luck, by the Ottoman traveller and author Evliya Çelebi. In Evliya...
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Introduction
The editors’ introduction situates Troubling Mobilities at the intersection of ongoing dialogues about gender and mobility in medieval studies. We...
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Women and Comparative Religion
Across geographic regions during the Middle Ages, religion offered pretexts for confining women to prescribed gender roles, but it also served as a...
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Devil’s Brew: Demons, Alewives, and the Gender of Beer in the Chester Harrowing of Hell and Contemporary Craft Beer Branding
This essay explores the association of beer with demons in two artifacts, one from late medieval England and one from the twenty-first-century United...
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Introducing Bodies
This section begins with an introduction composed by Roberta Magnani, in response to—and in dialogue with—chapters by Meagan Khoury, Sophie Sexon,...
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Studies of Masculinities: State of the Art and Latest Trends
While offering a quick look at the state of the art of masculinity studies, this chapter emphasizes some new directions within the field,...
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Hadewijch
Hadewijch (active c. 1240) was a mystic and author of a literary oeuvre encompassing letters and visions in prose, song lyrics, and epistolary poems....
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A Game of Thrones: Power structures in medievalisms, manuscripts, and the museum
As manuscripts curators at Getty Museum, we endeavor to make the Middle Ages relevant and accessible to diverse audiences both onsite and online....
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Tolkien, Race, and the Critics: Debating Racism in Middle-earth
This chapter focuses on the controversies that have emerged over the place of race in Tolkien’s legendarium, and the debate that has resulted over...
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The Soul of Agrippina: Gender, Suicide, and Reproductive Rights in Hamlet
In the early modern period, suicide was usually seen as inimical to the death arts, which is among the traditions that Hamlet calls into question....
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Constance of France Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europe
Constance of France: Womanhood and Agency in Twelfth-Century Europeis a biography of Constance of France, sister of King Louis VII of...
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Judging sexy women in late medieval France
Blindfolded Lady Justice with her scales rarely features in modern representations of medieval European justice. Instead, it is the female sexual...