Words as Weapons: Speech, Violence, and Gender in Late Medieval Ireland

Éire-Ireland ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne, Ph. D. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Late Medieval ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Medieval Ireland

Historical revisit: Mythistory and the making of Ireland: Alice Stopford Green's undoing

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (166) ◽  
pp. 349-373
Author(s):  
Angus Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
National Tradition ◽  
United Front ◽  
Medieval Ireland ◽  
Historical Practice

AbstractThe publication in 1908 of The making of Ireland and its undoing, 1200–1600 by the London-based Irish historian, Alice Stopford Green, provoked a controversy that reveals much about the deepening political tensions at the heart of historical practice in the decade before 1916. Stopford Green took a deliberately controversial approach to the rewriting of medieval Ireland that triggered a bombardment of both positive and negative reactions. Supporters of Irish home rule applauded the work for its innovative analysis and contemporary relevance. But the book elicited a flurry of exasperation from a united front of ‘history men’, who dismissed Stopford Green and her work as ‘political’ and largely fictitious. Anticipating the reaction from a profession that was predominantly sympathetic to a unionist interpretation, Stopford Green had a well-prepared plan that harnessed both her gender and her transnational networks of influence to maximise the dissemination of her radical reimagining of the late medieval Gaelic world. By understanding these deeper strategies of defiance, Alice Stopford Green's history might be reclaimed as a key intervention in the structuring of both Ireland's national tradition and collective consciousness in preparation for independence.

Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Sexon
Keyword(s):  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Books Of Hours ◽  
And Gender

This chapter argues that Christ’s body can be read as a non-binary body in Late Medieval imagery through analysis of images of Christ’s wounds that appear in Books of Hours and prayer rolls. Wounds opened up the gendered representation of the holy body to incorporate aspects of femininity, masculinity and aspects that signify as neither. Through a reading of Christ’s wounds as potential markers of the genderqueer, I argue that an individual’s identification with the non-binary body of Christ could result in identification as a non-binary body for the viewing patron. Genderqueer interpretation of Christ’s body shows how non-binary visual interpretation more broadly is useful for understanding the complexity of medieval bodies and gender.

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