Overview
- Discusses social mobility, travel, pilgrimage, migration and diaspora in the Middle Ages
- Considers the gendered implications of movement in the global Middle Ages
- Furthers medieval gender studies from cross-temporal and cross-cultural perspectives
Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)
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This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, texts, images, and ideas move across physiological, geographical, literary, and spiritual boundaries. In what ways do these movements afford new configurations of gender, sexuality, and being? Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that attending to the undulations of premodern gender and sexuality may help destabilize unstated assumptions about ways of being and loving in the Middle Ages. This volume also brings together emergent and established scholars to challenge an increasingly static academy and instead envision a scholarly practice focused on intergenerational, international, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Drawing upon wide range of primary sources and theoretical frameworks, the resultant essays unsettle the imagined fixity ofgender and propose alternative conceptualizations of embodiment, identity, and difference in the medieval world.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Reviews
“Basil Arnould Price, Jane Elizabeth Bonsall, and Meagan Khoury have edited an exciting new anthology that brings issues of gender into scholarship on mobility. The anthology contains three sections, each introduced by a more senior scholar. … Every essay references other essays and makes connections across the volume as a whole. Many collections end up feeling like a miscellany, but this collection has a coherence and shared sense of purpose … .” (Erik Wade, Speculum, Vol. 100 (2), April, 2025)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Basil Arnould Price is Wolfson Scholar at the University of York, UK. His research focuses on later medieval Iceland and in particular, the queer politics of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Old Norse-Icelandic sagas. He has previously published articles on colony, race, and queerness in Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English literature.
Jane Bonsall is Teaching Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on gender in late medieval English romance, with a focus on intertextuality and popular reception theories. Her recent publications concern gendered materiality, consent and coercion, and the role of the supernatural in Middle English romance.
Meagan Khoury is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, USA, in Art History with a minor in Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her dissertation centers questions of women’s communal living and cultural production in early modern Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Medieval Mobilities
Book Subtitle: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements
Editors: Basil Arnould Price, Jane Elizabeth Bonsall, Meagan Khoury
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12647-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12646-8Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12649-9Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12647-5Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 256
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medieval Literature, Literary Theory, History of Medieval Europe, Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, History, general