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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 493–521.
Published: 01 September 2008
... retardation, epilepsy, deformity, disputed sexuality (hermaphroditism, intersexuality, or castration), deafness, blindness, and even more fleeting circumstances such as fever, could call into question an individual's ability to perform normal legal actions or to be allowed to inherit an estate, serve...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 449–462.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of castration—the fascination with eunuchs—inadvertently produces genealogical history as the always already coherent field. He sub- sequently repeated the image of the eunuch at a crucial moment in the His- tory of Sexuality: “Let us not picture the bourgeoisie symbolically...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... archival evidence women's laughter castration Robin Hood In trying to locate performance in textual sources, medieval and early modern scholars often focus on explicit references to plays—and then bemoan the lack of evidence. But what if we move beyond performance as the enactment of scripted drama...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 325–346.
Published: 01 May 2010
... noticeably cooled as he whines and prays over his plight. His debearding thus partly functions within the comedy as a symbolic act of castration, depriving Bonifacio of his manhood, both sexually and socially. Conversely, the artist Gianbernardo, whose beard Bonifacio had earlier worn in order...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (3): 503–531.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to different orders of narrative. 43 But the boundaries that separate the comic and the tragic are fragile and dynamic, and in many of these tales those boundaries are hard to define. I've said that the stories of the priest castrated and the priest hauled off by the devil are comic in their outlines...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
... of intercourse itself is seen as a kind of captivation by the vagina dentata, an attempt to “suck in” the penis, as by a press, or chew it, as with the teeth of an animal (see fig. 3).65 According to Williams, medieval representations of the vagina dentata are “the ultimate suggestion of castration...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 83–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
..., Cupid removes the fiery dart from Amans’s heart and Venus anoints his wound. Having been thus “castrated” by Cupid, Amans is now in an uncomfortable parallel with the envious subject whose amorous desire has been quenched.57 Looking in Venus’s “wonder Mirour” (VIII.2821), the narrator sees...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 375–399.
Published: 01 May 2000
... England. Of course, Browne’s invocation of circumcision is most immediately interpretable as a symbolic threat of castration or emasculation. Versions of this idea, familiar to twentieth-century readers in a Freudian incarnation, were also available in the seventeenth century; indeed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (1): 7–31.
Published: 01 January 2016
...) was imagined to have circumcised himself to atone for castrating his own father, Ouranos.61 In any case, Macrobius’s condemnation of the Saturn story, if not overtly about circumcision, clearly arises from a desire to protect specifically male bodies from vulgar exposure. When Macrobius speaks...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 41–64.
Published: 01 January 2004
...: Gender, Sanctity, and Castration in Byzantium,” in Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages, 73–107. Wiethaus / Body and Empire 57 13 For a similar reading of Ottonian politics, see McNamara, Sisters in Arms, 184–91. 14 The church...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 7–30.
Published: 01 January 2009
... castration, into the symbolic Law of the Father. But the abject never entirely disappears from consciousness: “It is something rejected from which one does not part.”35 Fradenburg calls Marian miracles such as the Prioress’s Tale an important genre of anti-Semitic art that is marked by Jewish...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2013) 43 (1): 71–98.
Published: 01 January 2013
...,” a second “fool’s head” (2.9.58, 81).30 The doubling of his head compensates for the castration — the sterilization — of the Prince in his incorrect choice, which assigns him the fate to which he agreed, never to woo woman in marriage. His masculine identity compromised, the “por- trait of a blinking...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 375–406.
Published: 01 May 2009
... —“that the cockfight is a thinly disguised symbolic homoerotic masturbatory phallic duel, with the winner emasculating the loser through castration and feminization”— serves also as a corrective cri- tique to what he views as the missteps and misreadings of anthropologists (from Geertz forward) whose “bias...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2003) 33 (3): 419–435.
Published: 01 September 2003
... to the image of the female virgin as enclosed garden, she does so in male disguise. In fact, as Pelagius she has had her femaleness “castrated, ” so to speak, by the bishop Nonnos, who says the monk is a eunuch ( VP 13), a marker that actually intensiŽes her maleness rather than transporting her...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (2): 331–373.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Bonini’s son, born with the penile glans blocked so that he urinated from “a channel opened a little below.”18 Surgical procedures and prostheses were devised to overcome con- genital variations or damage caused by war, violence, or disease. Musical castrati, eunuchs, and men castrated...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 523–557.
Published: 01 September 2008
... onto women, who are rendered aggressive in the exchange. By sadistically combining drinking, biting, and poisoning in their inordinate sexual craving, these women end up literally castrating their men, who lose both their masculinity and manhood the very moment they put the other sex in charge...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 215–236.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., the Body, and Sexuality: An Inquiry into His Anthro- pology. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2011. x, 266 pp. Paper $32.95. Tracy, Larissa, ed. Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2013. xiii, 351 pp.; 5 figs. $99.00. Walter, Katie L., ed. Reading Skin...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 305–326.
Published: 01 May 2002
...). These anecdotes, of course, merely represent the obverse of his obsession with looking: both imply a desire to regulate sexuality by means of the gaze. In psychoanalytic terms, this voyeuristic attempt to regulate sexuality would be born of castration anxiety—a fear that the lack displayed in the body...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 581–604.
Published: 01 September 2002
... $29.95. [First published as a special issue of Gender and History 12.3 (2000 Stanivukovic, Goran V., ed. Ovid and the Renaissance Body. Toronto: Uni- versity of Toronto Press, 2001. vi, 281 pp. $65.00. Taylor, Gary. Castration: An Abbreviated History of Western Manhood. New York: Routledge, 2000. x...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 493–518.
Published: 01 September 2002
... the domestic sphere in the opposition between the two images heading the separate parts of the ballad. In the illustration to the first part, we see Anne ensconced within the home stabbing—one might think castrating—her husband with his own distended and very phallic chisel. In the second part...