Julie Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858281 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6449-9379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dislocations of Memory
Medieval discourses on ageing—in learned, popular, and literary contexts alike—tend to posit extreme decline as an ordinary part of old age. But what happens to critical notions of ‘disability’ when physical and mental degeneration are a normative age expectation? This essay uses the notion of ‘debility’ to explore how medieval constructs of senescence challenge the borders between disabled and nondisabled embodiments, and between age-related dec…
Literatures of the Hundred Years War
Child resuscitation miracles and the living past
This article attends to miraculously resuscitated children’s voices as interventions in time, showing that the very notion of ‘recovery’ creates and depends on a disjunction between developmental time and lived time. The article begins with an introduction to child resuscitation miracles and the role that voice plays in them, before taking a deeper look at Gautier de Coinci’s tale of the little boy who sang Gaude Maria . Inspired by recent concep…
Vulnerable Positions
Crossing Time with Philippe de Novare
Philippe de Novare’s .iiij. tenz d’aage d’ome (ca. 1264) is a treatise on the Ages of Man that stands out not only for its originality but also for the ways in which it performs an unusually intersubjective dynamics of aging. In this text where structural and rhetorical features are persistently looking forward, backward, and askew, Philippe emphasizes intergenerational interdependence: individuals of different age are dependent on each other, an…
Hearing an Urban Plague Soundscape
This article proposes a new mode of sensory literary history, illustrated through an attentive reading of the sonic world the chronicler Gilles li Muisis creates in his account of the plague in Tournai in 1349. It shows that the blind chronicler presents sound as operating according to a plague-like logic of contagion, as he records songs, sermons, bells, and popular speech from within the walls of his quiet Benedictine monastery. A fuller consid…
Aleksandra Pfau, Medieval Communities and the Mad
Aleksandra Pfau’s study addresses a previously unmet need in the study of medieval disability, exploring how non-elite people lived with mental illness—and how family and community cared for them—in later medieval France. She does so by examining a sample of remission letters issued between 1364 and 1498, which document royal pardons and reproduce the language with which petitioners (often family and friends of the culpable party) described a cri…
De aymant en dyamant’
Networking Froissart’s Florin
Jean Froissart’s 1389 Dit du florin stages a dialogue between a penurious poet-narrator and the single, misshapen coin remaining at the bottom of his otherwise empty purse. Described as clipped, disfigured, and broken, the coin is now worthless: paradoxically, its former value lay at its now-missing periphery, not at its center. The florin nonetheless offers a faithful accounting of the narrator’s expenditures, and ultimately binds the poet in a …
Penal and Palliative Discourses in the Debate of the Belle Dame sans Mercy
From the time of its composition through the early 1460s, Alain Chartier's Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424) elicited a series of responses, including two continuations by Achille Caulier. This pair of closely related texts invites an exploration of the theoretical stakes of a confrontation between judicial and penal procedures and the medicalized body. Across Caulier's successive interventions in the querelle, medical language at first complements th…
Revolting anatomy in the Farce nouvelle des cinq sens de l’homme
Disability and the social body
Fifteenth-Century Studies 35
Annual volume of essays treating topics ranging from physical impairment to narrative afterlife and time. The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a time of transition and a passage to modern times. Fifteenth-Century Studies treats diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Volume 35 …
Toward a transhuman model of medieval disability
Clockwork Genres
Generically complex texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are often characterized as "hybrids" blending lyric, prose, and narrative verse. However, closer consideration of a corpus of French "hybrids" centering on Temperance and her recently invented attribute, the mechanical clock, casts doubt on the applicability of the hybrid designation to these works. Texts such as Jean Froissart's Orloge amoureus and Christine de Pizan's Epistre O…
Latent Ghosts and the Manifesto
Framing this article is an interest in post‐colonial theory's impact on art history, and the ethical demands it has placed on that history. It explores the ways in which post‐colonial studies have situated the development of disciplines in terms of their complicity with nationalist and colonialist agendas. Post‐colonial theory's political intervention into art history also raises the question of the ethical limits of partisan reading and foregrou…
Clockwork Genres
Generically complex texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are often characterized as "hybrids" blending lyric, prose, and narrative verse. However, closer consideration of a corpus of French "hybrids" centering on Temperance and her recently invented attribute, the mechanical clock, casts doubt on the applicability of the hybrid designation to these works. Texts such as Jean Froissart's Orloge amoureus and Christine de Pizan's Epistre O…
Penal and Palliative Discourses in the Debate of the Belle Dame sans Mercy
From the time of its composition through the early 1460s, Alain Chartier's Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424) elicited a series of responses, including two continuations by Achille Caulier. This pair of closely related texts invites an exploration of the theoretical stakes of a confrontation between judicial and penal procedures and the medicalized body. Across Caulier's successive interventions in the querelle, medical language at first complements th…
Disability and the social body
Toward a transhuman model of medieval disability
Latent Ghosts and the Manifesto
Framing this article is an interest in post‐colonial theory's impact on art history, and the ethical demands it has placed on that history. It explores the ways in which post‐colonial studies have situated the development of disciplines in terms of their complicity with nationalist and colonialist agendas. Post‐colonial theory's political intervention into art history also raises the question of the ethical limits of partisan reading and foregrou…
Clockwork Genres
Generically complex texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are often characterized as "hybrids" blending lyric, prose, and narrative verse. However, closer consideration of a corpus of French "hybrids" centering on Temperance and her recently invented attribute, the mechanical clock, casts doubt on the applicability of the hybrid designation to these works. Texts such as Jean Froissart's Orloge amoureus and Christine de Pizan's Epistre O…
Fifteenth-Century Studies 35
Annual volume of essays treating topics ranging from physical impairment to narrative afterlife and time. The fifteenth century defies consensus on fundamental issues; most scholars agree, however, that the period outgrew the Middle Ages, that it was a time of transition and a passage to modern times. Fifteenth-Century Studies treats diverse aspects of the period, including liberal and fine arts, historiography, medicine, and religion. Volume 35 …
Toward a transhuman model of medieval disability
Revolting anatomy in the Farce nouvelle des cinq sens de l’homme
Disability and the social body
Penal and Palliative Discourses in the Debate of the Belle Dame sans Mercy
From the time of its composition through the early 1460s, Alain Chartier's Belle Dame sans Mercy (1424) elicited a series of responses, including two continuations by Achille Caulier. This pair of closely related texts invites an exploration of the theoretical stakes of a confrontation between judicial and penal procedures and the medicalized body. Across Caulier's successive interventions in the querelle, medical language at first complements th…
Networking Froissart’s Florin
Jean Froissart’s 1389 Dit du florin stages a dialogue between a penurious poet-narrator and the single, misshapen coin remaining at the bottom of his otherwise empty purse. Described as clipped, disfigured, and broken, the coin is now worthless: paradoxically, its former value lay at its now-missing periphery, not at its center. The florin nonetheless offers a faithful accounting of the narrator’s expenditures, and ultimately binds the poet in a …
De aymant en dyamant’
Aleksandra Pfau, Medieval Communities and the Mad
Aleksandra Pfau’s study addresses a previously unmet need in the study of medieval disability, exploring how non-elite people lived with mental illness—and how family and community cared for them—in later medieval France. She does so by examining a sample of remission letters issued between 1364 and 1498, which document royal pardons and reproduce the language with which petitioners (often family and friends of the culpable party) described a cri…
Crossing Time with Philippe de Novare
Philippe de Novare’s .iiij. tenz d’aage d’ome (ca. 1264) is a treatise on the Ages of Man that stands out not only for its originality but also for the ways in which it performs an unusually intersubjective dynamics of aging. In this text where structural and rhetorical features are persistently looking forward, backward, and askew, Philippe emphasizes intergenerational interdependence: individuals of different age are dependent on each other, an…
Hearing an Urban Plague Soundscape
This article proposes a new mode of sensory literary history, illustrated through an attentive reading of the sonic world the chronicler Gilles li Muisis creates in his account of the plague in Tournai in 1349. It shows that the blind chronicler presents sound as operating according to a plague-like logic of contagion, as he records songs, sermons, bells, and popular speech from within the walls of his quiet Benedictine monastery. A fuller consid…
Vulnerable Positions
Dislocations of Memory
Medieval discourses on ageing—in learned, popular, and literary contexts alike—tend to posit extreme decline as an ordinary part of old age. But what happens to critical notions of ‘disability’ when physical and mental degeneration are a normative age expectation? This essay uses the notion of ‘debility’ to explore how medieval constructs of senescence challenge the borders between disabled and nondisabled embodiments, and between age-related dec…
Literatures of the Hundred Years War
Child resuscitation miracles and the living past
This article attends to miraculously resuscitated children’s voices as interventions in time, showing that the very notion of ‘recovery’ creates and depends on a disjunction between developmental time and lived time. The article begins with an introduction to child resuscitation miracles and the role that voice plays in them, before taking a deeper look at Gautier de Coinci’s tale of the little boy who sang Gaude Maria . Inspired by recent concep…
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