Auteur: Kim M. Phillips

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the ‘invention’ of sexuality, erotic acts and desires w …

Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the ‘invention’ of sexuality, erotic acts and desires w …

A distinct European perspective on Asia emerged in the late Middle Ages. Early reports of a homogeneous ‘India’ of marvels and monsters gave way to accounts written by medieval travelers that indulge …

Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, ‘deviance, ‘ and even the biology of sex have been …

Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, ‘deviance, ‘ and even the biology of sex have been …

One of the most important medieval writers studied in historical and literary context. Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and …

Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth/early fifteenth-century anchoress and mystic, is one of the most important and best-known figures of the Middle Ages. Her Revelations, intense visions of the divine, …

Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. Moving on from the legacy of Ariès, these essays address evidence for …