My work on the Psychomachia manuscripts stems from the third case study of my PhD thesis. There, I considered the gender of the figures, including the instability of their gender representation in select images and what it means for understanding gender in Late Anglo-Saxon England. Expanding this focus, I am now working on a wider study … Continue reading The Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Manuscripts
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Vice & Virtue As Woman?: The Iconography of Gender Identity in the Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations
“Vice & Virtue as Woman?: The Iconography of Gender Identity in the Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations.” Medieval Feminist Forum (Transgender Special Edition), ed. Dorothy Kim. Available here. Abstract: In the Late Anglo-Saxon illustrated manuscripts of Prudentius's Psychomachia, vice and virtue are often shown ambiguously and the audience is encouraged to question what is male and what … Continue reading Vice & Virtue As Woman?: The Iconography of Gender Identity in the Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations