Getting Medieval with Benedetta Carlini
Trigger warning: Violent sexual assault, homophobia, torture, disgusting abuses of history, lesbian wrath When the medievalist Carolyn Dinshaw named her…
Baylee Woodley
My project looks at representations of liminal and queer femininities to trace a long genealogy of sorts. By bringing manuscript illuminations from the moment when ‘femininity’ was coined in Middle English (14th-15th C.) into conversation with contemporary UK-based artists calling for non-binary, speculative approaches to femininities, I hope to show that binary associations of femininity with womanhood do not do justice to the complexities of historical uses of the term as well as to think about how both the medieval and the modern might be engaged in projects of imagining alternatives.
