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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2016) 46 (2): 263–287.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Carissa M. Harris This essay focuses on Middle English pastourelles, a popular but understudied medieval lyric genre centrally concerned with women's experiences of the threat of sexual violence. This genre offers contemporary audiences a rich and valuable resource for understanding medieval ideas...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 227–268.
Published: 01 May 2002
... their present concerns. The description of retribution exacted from invaders, whether Danish or Norman, poses an indirect but clear warning to those who threaten the monastic space at Ely. The remainder of this essay, then, explores the chronicle’s represen- tations of sexualized violence against...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 533–551.
Published: 01 September 2021
... University Press, 1996), 210–28. For the way the “language of love” can become one of the available discourses to describe rape in the period, see Garthine Walker, “Rereading Rape and Sexual Violence in Early Modern England,” Gender and History 10, no. 1 (1998): 1–25, esp. 16–18. 5 For my discussion...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (2): 407–427.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of summoning his own “usurp[ation Lerner / Donne’s Annihilation  413 “imprison[ment and (sexually) violent shattering. Yet the sonnet also dis- plays that the willful working toward martyrdom may bar the speaker from the sacred violence that would annihilate...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (1): 147–166.
Published: 01 January 2017
... as a methodology. Pardon letters narrate histories of violence and misbehavior: bar- room brawls, public dustups, economic fraud, verbal spats, and more. The conflicts that they recount, ranging from comical disputes to sexual violence and murder, feature the full spectrum of society: aggrieved...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2020) 50 (2): 269–291.
Published: 01 May 2020
... pagan rule attracts the atten- tion of worldly authorities, whose sexualized overtures she refuses. She is imprisoned and, when she persists, tortured.1 Yet the masculine violence of her oppressors inevitably falters before her inviolate body a miracle which prompts the onlookers to convert en masse...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 577–585.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of text to performance is also central to the final two articles in this issue. Laura Levine analyzes two early modern pamphlets reporting notorious trials of witchcraft and sexual violence, both of which “end up repeating—reenacting and performing—versions of the crimes they seek to examine.” While...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 309–338.
Published: 01 May 2000
... performative force allows us to refine and develop further the strong thesis of feminist historians Christina Larner, Marianne Hester, and Anne Barstow that witch-hunts were women- hunts, “sexual violence against women within a context of male supremacist social relations.” The important ideological...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2004) 34 (1): 41–64.
Published: 01 January 2004
...) to illegitimate female upstarts.53 War as well can be defined as an act of intentional spatial transgres- sion, yet unlike a prostitute’s excursions, it is marked by the excessive use of violence. Hrotsvit’s fourth type of sexual nonconformity describes typical sexual aggression during wars, the rape...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (2): 409–440.
Published: 01 May 2001
..., Hampshire: Ashgate, 2000. xv, 316 pp.; 93 figs. $59.95. 8. Sexuality and erotic desire Bamford, Karen. Sexual Violence on the Jacobean Stage. New York: St. Mar- tin’s Press, 2000. x, 237 pp. $45.00. Dinshaw, Carolyn. Getting Medieval: Sexualities...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (3): 445–476.
Published: 01 September 2001
... of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.64 It is safe to say, then, that Britten would not have been inclined to stage Canticle II as a sexual psychodrama. However, links between authority, violence, and death made in this work, where they are registered by Isaac’s request for a beating, are also evident...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2011) 41 (2): 393–416.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and alliance. Whereas the men’s association with Chastitie and the stereotypes of their trades imply sexual abstinence, the Taylours Wyfe and Sowtars Wyfe engage in the opposite extreme when they channel the unruly violence that they inflict on their husbands with unruly sexual activity with each other...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (3): 449–462.
Published: 01 September 2000
... can help us to understand some paradoxes con- stitutive of Foucault’s genealogical method and his periodization of the his- tory of sexuality. In his famous essay, “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History,” Fou- cault imagined genealogical history, or “effective” history...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 327–342.
Published: 01 May 2002
...- gia de pulice, once attributed to Ovid, is a repugnant display of graphic sex- ual violence that draws on carnage as a metaphor for sexual intercourse: “You lacerate the tender body with a bite; when you, whose skin is full with gore, dispatch blemishes from your black body you cause the limbs...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (3): 617–635.
Published: 01 September 2024
... The parish registers, the ballad, and the court records attempt to fill a void of understanding—how could someone from the local community engage in such acts of sadistic violence, and, implicit in the archives, what responsibility did the community bear? As historians have pointed out, a quantitative...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2001) 31 (1): 113–146.
Published: 01 January 2001
..., the counterargument goes, it is nowhere. I must admit to never having understood the logic of this kind of dismissal, frequent in scholarly circles (e.g., “If queerness is everywhere, it is nowhere many things are omnipresent—oxygen, altru- ism, violence—and they do...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (3): 487–495.
Published: 01 September 2021
... especially sheds light on the violence and sexuality in The Raven's Almanac . In it, Robin Hood climbs onto Friar Tuck's back to cross a stream and is thrown into the water. They then fight three bouts before Robin Hood calls a halt and invites his opponent to join his merry men. 7 If read as literary...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2008) 38 (3): 559–587.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., sexual conduct, and proper attire. The cumulative effect of these commands henceforth rendered the leper dead to the world, a solitary outcast.5 The unfortunate man or woman would then be conveyed to a hut or compound outside the village, or increas- ingly, from the twelfth century...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (3): 581–604.
Published: 01 September 2002
... and translations 2. Reference 3. Historians and historiography 4. Studies in breadth 5. Biography 6. Material cultures 7. Religious, saints, and popes 8. Formations of empire, nation, and state 9. Crossing cultures 10. Violence and transgression...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2024) 54 (1): 137–163.
Published: 01 January 2024
... visual judgment, but tactile and sometimes olfactive judgment as well, sensory readings that surgeons—and, in cases of female victims of sexual violence, midwives—with their hands-on approach to medical practice, were best equipped to offer. 13 Though medical examination had been practiced...
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