March 11th Readings and Slides
March 13th: Readings and Slides
Readings:
- SH, 272-274.
- SMR, 7.10 “Gender and its discontents: Court record of Rolandina Roncaglia (1354)”
Slides:
If this class, we will not be discussing whether or not LGBTQ people existed in the medieval period. We know they did. What we will explore are the challenges of working with the surviving evidence to get a full picture of what their lives were like. Most of the evidence, like the trial record I’ve assigned for reading today, is legal–framing the person as having committed a crime of some kind. But there are ways to read such sources to unpack their relationships with others, their daily lives, how they and others perceived them. That is what our focus will be on.
If you’d like more readings on this topic, please let me know.
Assignments and Online Discussion
Assignments:
- Research Trail Part 2B due Monday March 11th at midnight on Moodle. For information: Research Trail Part 2B
Online discussion:
- Group One and Group Two will post their responses to the readings for Wednesday by Monday at midnight.