Beyond the Court: (Homo)sexuality and Aristocratic Culture

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1 Joan W. Scott, ‘Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis’, American Historical Review 91 (1986), pp. 1053-75; Corinne T. Field and Nicholas L. Syrett, ‘Chronological Age: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis’, American Historical Review 125 (2020), pp. 371-84.

2 Sahar Amer, Crossing Borders. Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Philadelphia, 2008), p. 4.

3 Jennifer Manion, ‘Calling All Liberals: Connecting Feminist Theory, Activism, and History’, in Jim Downs and Jennifer Manion (eds), Taking Back the Academy! History of Activism, History as Activism (Routledge, 2004), pp. 145-59, at p. 151.

4 ‘Die vorliegende Band motiviert uns, diese Forschungen auf Augenhöhe mit den historischen Akteuren und ihrer Weltsicht zu unternehmen, und sie nicht (nur) den heutigen Theoriekonstrukten zu unterwurfen’.

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Felice Lifshitz

Felice Lifshitz

Felice Lifshitz is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta. Her recent publications include Writing Normandy: Stories of Saints and Rulers (2020); Gender and Historical Film and Television, co-edited with Shiobhan Craig and Carol Donelan (2018; a Special Issue of Gender and History); Salt, Sword, and Crozier: Books and Coins from the Prince-Bishopric of Salzburg (c. 1500–c.1800), co-authored with Joseph F. Patrouch (2017); and Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture (2014).