“WHAT PERSONS, MASCULINE OR FEMININE”: EXAMINATIONS OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND QUEER POTENTIALITIES IN WESTERN MEDIEVAL EUROPE

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dc.contributor.advisorBianchini, Jannaen_US
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Erinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistory/Library & Information Systemsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-14T06:50:32Z
dc.date.available2024-02-14T06:50:32Z
dc.date.issued2023en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I argue that medieval people in Latin Europe had complex, overlapping identities and experiences of gender and sexuality that developed in their specific temporal and geographical contexts. The internal understandings of identities and the external expressions and interpretations of such identities are sites of historical possibility—and sources of potential inter-and intra-personal conflicts Medieval writings like Le Roman de Silence demonstrate how these identities could be constructed and expressed for literary and rhetorical purposes. Extant court cases, including those of John/Eleanor Rykener, Vitoria of Lisbon, and Katherina Hetzeldorfer, demonstrate the complexity of lived experiences of identity, and how deviation from accepted community and cultural norms could prove dangerous. It is impossible to assert such identities of gender and sexuality for historical figures of the medieval era with complete certainty, but the exploration of these identities is necessary for a fuller understanding and representation of the period and the people who lived throughout it.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/kmcb-ho1h
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/31769
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMedieval historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLGBTQ studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEuropean historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledeuropean historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledgenderen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledidentityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmedieval historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledqueer historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsexualityen_US
dc.title“WHAT PERSONS, MASCULINE OR FEMININE”: EXAMINATIONS OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION AND QUEER POTENTIALITIES IN WESTERN MEDIEVAL EUROPEen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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