Michael D Barbezat
Biographic Data
| ID | 4246763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael D Barbezat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael D |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbezat |
| SIGNATURE | BARBEZAT M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Western Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8795-1148 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney
This article explains how the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of radical queer nuns, created gay 'religious relics' in San Francisco and Sydney, Australia, in the 1980s. The Sisters' relics are a neglected part of twentieth-century queer history and reflect the role of urban spaces and sexual cultures in the formation of contemporary queer identities. They also represent an early effort to preserve and commemorate queer histories. The Si…
Demons Only Virgins Can See: Divination with Child-Mediums as a Medieval Type of Clerical Child Abuse
This article examines the use of child-mediums in divination and magic as a specific medieval understanding of child abuse. Medieval authors believed that children were used in this way by learned men, particularly churchmen. They believed the practice was abusive, causing physiological and psychological harm. Many also thought, for different reasons, that it could produce revelations. This topic provided medieval authors with an opportunity to t…
Converse with the dead as a technology of the self: Agreements to return from the other-world in Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations
This article examines agreements to return from the afterlife made between friends, in the Liber revelationum (Book of Revelations) compiled by the Augustinian canon Peter of Cornwall around 1200. In the fulfilment of these agreements, dead friends remained present in the devotional lives of the living. They helped the living transform themselves, particularly through a type of epektasis, in which what began as a desire to see and speak with the …
An Herb for Speaking to The Dead: The Liturgical and Magical Life of Hyssop in The Latin Middle Ages
Magical practices have been described as a point of convergence for different pathways in medieval culture. This article examines one such convergence in the ritual use of hyssop in medieval Latin theology, liturgy, and a group of magical texts linked to the understudied Book of Raziel. In these magical texts, hyssop supposedly helped the living speak to the dead through its use as a tool for sprinkling liquid over a grave. The magical use of hys…
A Conjuration of Patrick: A Legacy of Doubt and Imagining in Hamlet
He Doubted That These Things Actually Happened: Knowing the Otherworld in theTractatus De Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Bodies of Spirit and Bodies of Flesh: The Significance of the Sexual Practices Attributed to Heretics from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century
If fact, the short phrase "to commit heresy" can refer to illicit sexual intercourse between members of the same sex or between a person and an animal.10 What appears to modern commentators like Foucault as "an utterly confused category" was for many medieval intellectuals a set of associations based upon thematic similarities, foremost of which was a contempt for God and a resulting emersion in carnality.11 The interpretive filters that combine …
The fires of hell and the burning of heretics in the accounts of the executions at Orleans in 1022
This article examines the significance of hell and hellfire in the sources for the first recorded burning of humans for the crime of heresy in the medieval West at Orleans in 1022. It suggests that the main sources for this event describe the execution of the heretics by fire as an enactment of their eschatological destinies. The division of humanity into two overarching communities, namely the saved and the damned, shapes both the accounts near-…
The fires of hell and the burning of heretics in the accounts of the executions at Orleans in 1022
This article examines the significance of hell and hellfire in the sources for the first recorded burning of humans for the crime of heresy in the medieval West at Orleans in 1022. It suggests that the main sources for this event describe the execution of the heretics by fire as an enactment of their eschatological destinies. The division of humanity into two overarching communities, namely the saved and the damned, shapes both the accounts near-…
He Doubted That These Things Actually Happened: Knowing the Otherworld in theTractatus De Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
Bodies of Spirit and Bodies of Flesh: The Significance of the Sexual Practices Attributed to Heretics from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century
If fact, the short phrase "to commit heresy" can refer to illicit sexual intercourse between members of the same sex or between a person and an animal.10 What appears to modern commentators like Foucault as "an utterly confused category" was for many medieval intellectuals a set of associations based upon thematic similarities, foremost of which was a contempt for God and a resulting emersion in carnality.11 The interpretive filters that combine …
The fires of hell and the burning of heretics in the accounts of the executions at Orleans in 1022
This article examines the significance of hell and hellfire in the sources for the first recorded burning of humans for the crime of heresy in the medieval West at Orleans in 1022. It suggests that the main sources for this event describe the execution of the heretics by fire as an enactment of their eschatological destinies. The division of humanity into two overarching communities, namely the saved and the damned, shapes both the accounts near-…
Bodies of Spirit and Bodies of Flesh: The Significance of the Sexual Practices Attributed to Heretics from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century
If fact, the short phrase "to commit heresy" can refer to illicit sexual intercourse between members of the same sex or between a person and an animal.10 What appears to modern commentators like Foucault as "an utterly confused category" was for many medieval intellectuals a set of associations based upon thematic similarities, foremost of which was a contempt for God and a resulting emersion in carnality.11 The interpretive filters that combine …
He Doubted That These Things Actually Happened: Knowing the Otherworld in theTractatus De Purgatorio Sancti Patricii
A Conjuration of Patrick: A Legacy of Doubt and Imagining in Hamlet
Converse with the dead as a technology of the self: Agreements to return from the other-world in Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations
This article examines agreements to return from the afterlife made between friends, in the Liber revelationum (Book of Revelations) compiled by the Augustinian canon Peter of Cornwall around 1200. In the fulfilment of these agreements, dead friends remained present in the devotional lives of the living. They helped the living transform themselves, particularly through a type of epektasis, in which what began as a desire to see and speak with the …
An Herb for Speaking to The Dead: The Liturgical and Magical Life of Hyssop in The Latin Middle Ages
Magical practices have been described as a point of convergence for different pathways in medieval culture. This article examines one such convergence in the ritual use of hyssop in medieval Latin theology, liturgy, and a group of magical texts linked to the understudied Book of Raziel. In these magical texts, hyssop supposedly helped the living speak to the dead through its use as a tool for sprinkling liquid over a grave. The magical use of hys…
Demons Only Virgins Can See: Divination with Child-Mediums as a Medieval Type of Clerical Child Abuse
This article examines the use of child-mediums in divination and magic as a specific medieval understanding of child abuse. Medieval authors believed that children were used in this way by learned men, particularly churchmen. They believed the practice was abusive, causing physiological and psychological harm. Many also thought, for different reasons, that it could produce revelations. This topic provided medieval authors with an opportunity to t…
The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney
This article explains how the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of radical queer nuns, created gay 'religious relics' in San Francisco and Sydney, Australia, in the 1980s. The Sisters' relics are a neglected part of twentieth-century queer history and reflect the role of urban spaces and sexual cultures in the formation of contemporary queer identities. They also represent an early effort to preserve and commemorate queer histories. The Si…
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