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How to Do the History of Transgender How to Do the History of Transgender
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“A Strange and Perverse Adultery”: Sequence and Imitation in Hildegard’s Scivias “A Strange and Perverse Adultery”: Sequence and Imitation in Hildegard’s Scivias
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Ovid in Other Words: Iphis and Ianthe, and Their Transformations Ovid in Other Words: Iphis and Ianthe, and Their Transformations
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How to Do Queer with Things How to Do Queer with Things
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Imag(in)ing Transgender: Illustrated Ovide moralisé Manuscripts Imag(in)ing Transgender: Illustrated Ovide moralisé Manuscripts
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Presenting Transgender: Christine de Pizan’s Le livre de la mutacion de Fortune Presenting Transgender: Christine de Pizan’s Le livre de la mutacion de Fortune
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Lesbian Futures: Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy Lesbian Futures: Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy
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Abstract
This chapter considers the benefits of filtering medieval ideas of unnatural sex through the postmodern category transgender. It begins by engaging with conceptions of transgender time in recent historiography. This is followed by a detailed analysis of passages on cross-gendered performance and illicit sex in Hildegard of Bingen’s Scivias, which demonstrate the inextricability of concepts of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. The remainder of the chapter focuses on the Ovidian myth of Iphis and Ianthe, a sex change narrative mediated in the Middle Ages via a number of moralized retellings of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. These retellings, which include a translation of the prose Ovide moralisé by William Caxton, variously confront and suppress the Iphis story’s “lesbian” implications. In conclusion, the chapter explores other, alternative responses to the myth of Iphis and Ianthe, including retellings by the fifteenth-century poet and intellectual Christine de Pizan and by the contemporary British novelist Ali Smith.
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