... a The Patronage of the Body: Burial Sites, Identity, and Gender in Fifteenth-­Century Venice Stanley Chojnacki University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill...

... offers an idealized representation of the presumably male body, that idealization is also inextricably linked to nonidealized, even abject bodies, so that these early modern notions of bodily knowledge production both undergird and challenge assumptions about gender and class. Copyright © 2018 Duke...

... linked to prevailing expectations of gendered behavior, written conventions for expressing emotions such as grief and sorrow, as well as medical beliefs about men’s and women’s bodies. The resulting analysis offers rich insights into the words and views of patients and into gendered experiences and self...

...): 385  –  409; Liz Herbert McAvoy, Author- ity and the Female Body in the Writings of Julian of Norwich (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004); Maria Lichtmann, “ ‘God fulfilled my bodye’: Body, Self, and God in Julian of Norwich,” in Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages, ed. Jane Chance...

... peoples of Catholic France and “New France”—through the lens of gender. In the case of early modern Atlantic dreaming, gender and its confusions in the social imaginary are not tied to the historical practice of female-bodied persons. The femininity investigated here is positional and symbolic...

...Jessica A. Boon For thirteen years, the Clarissan Juana de la Cruz (1481 – 1534) gave public “sermones” during which Christ’s voice was reported to issue from her rapt body, expanding on the biblical record and describing festivities in heaven that feature considerable fluidity in gender...

... two years. Many will be presented here before they are ordered and shelved by libraries. The topics for this issue include: Editions and translations Reference Historiography, historians, and critical theory Biographical studies Medicine, science, and technology The body Sexuality Gender and works...

... concretely a number of pervasive social and cultural anxieties about masculine self-presentation in Bruno's time. This essay brings together literary and cultural history within the broader context of gender and body studies of Renaissance Italy, in particular, and, more generally, of the European...

... center on history (i.e., “story”) and theology, but also engage political topics: class, equality, governance, gender, the authority of reason, and conscience vis-à-vis that of tradition, custom, and culture. The essay focuses on these latter issues, that is to say, on the political opinions held...

... above human nature and the sinful body, both associated with femininity. In recent years modern scholars have developed their own vocabu- lary of the “performative” for the transformations, gendered and otherwise, that ascetic and other practices produce. Drawing on theories...

... Winston-Salem, North Carolina Gendered bodies, bloodlines, religion On 2 February 962, Otto I (912–973) became crowned Holy Roman Emperor at Rome: the first Reich was coming into being. Otto’s empire linked German territories with most of Italy. Its continuation depended upon close cooperation...

..., 9. 27 Quoted in Kathleen Biddick, “Genders, Bodies, Borders: Technologies of the Visible,” Speculum 68 (1993): 392 n. 9. For the gendering, sexualization, and fetishization of the archive in the nineteenth century, see Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender...

... and control mutually condition the trajectory of this partic- ular empire in embryo. In terms of aristocratic female bodies, queens and empresses quite literally fulfill the dynastic ambitions of their families—as a result, many of Lees and Overing / Signifying Gender...

... Women, Holy Words: Early Christian Women, Social His- tory, and the ‘Linguistic Turn Journal of Early Christian Studies 6 (1998): 416. For a discussion of the destabilization of gender, see Elizabeth Castelli, “‘I Will Make Mary Male’: Pieties of the Body and Gender Transformation...

... Catherine Des Roches’s strategy of inversion plays on the dissimu- lation entailed in the very naturalization of a body. The gendered article of “la puce,” conventionally an unmarked signifier of gender, becomes inflected as feminine in Catherine’s poem. She makes the flea a female. In turn, the unstable...

... the other two, is defined as somatic rather than spiced: her body pollutes Illyrian air, and her scent is repetitively described as an airborne plague that produces Illyria’s atmosphere of gender and class inversion and sexual excess. Reading these plays together, my goal is to open up alternative...

... and interpret the female body in early modern Europe. Gender, generation, and authority in the Fabrica Scholars have well noted the voyeuristic and sexualized impulses of early modern anatomy. In the Fabrica title-­page woodcut, the executed woman lays both bare and opened before a clamoring male...

... the saint’s body, against the shrine, and against the monastery to illustrate how the monks handled their anxieties by positioning themselves within a female-gendered space and by imagining themselves as economic victims of the Norman invaders. But before turning to a consideration of these rhetorical...

... N-Town Mary plays Gorboduc womb and mind connection gender and the body • A Microhistory of the Womb from the N-Town­ Mary Plays to Gorboduc Sara...

... – 322 Brown, Georgia E. Cutting, Sticking, and Material Meaning in a Book of Passion Cycle Engravings  543 – 556 Chojnacki, Stanley The Patronage of the Body: Burial Sites, Identity, and Gender in Fifteenth-­ Century Venice  79 – 101 Considine, John Cutting and Pasting Slips: Early Modern...