... Baudri of Bourgueil and Constance Ovidian poetry Sappho What does it mean to have a feminine voice in a literary world dominated by male authors? What would it mean for the contemporary reader of ancient and medieval texts to be responsive to the distinctiveness of the feminine voice...

..., an Ovidian topos for representing the liminal stage of adolescence. (Of course, we should also note that none of these characters negotiates a normal crossing of that threshold.) In the case of Hermaphroditus, we might expect him to cross the limen from adolescent sexual ambiguity into full masculinity...