Katie talks about 14th century sex worker Eleanor Rykener and the tiny glimpse we get into medieval queer life based on one single court document.
Sources:
"Calling [Herself] Eleanor" Gender Labor and Becoming a Woman in the Rykener Case by Kadin Henningsen.
The Trial and Travels of Eleanor Rykener by Liane D. Gallant. <<storymaps.arcgis.com>>
"Ut cum muliere" A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth Century London--Premodern Sexualites by Ruth Karras & David Boyd
"[redacted] / Eleanor Rykener Revisited""--Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns. by Ruth Karras & Tom Linkinen
Katie talks about 14th century sex worker Eleanor Rykener and the tiny glimpse we get into medieval queer life based on one single court document.
Sources:
"Calling [Herself] Eleanor" Gender Labor and Becoming a Woman in the Rykener Case by Kadin Henningsen.
The Trial and Travels of Eleanor Rykener by Liane D. Gallant. <<storymaps.arcgis.com>>
"Ut cum muliere" A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth Century London--Premodern Sexualites by Ruth Karras & David Boyd
"[redacted] / Eleanor Rykener Revisited""--Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns. by Ruth Karras & Tom Linkinen