Jennifer Garrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Garrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrison |
| SIGNATURE | GARRISON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Calgary Laboratory Services |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession
Modern hegemonic masculinity often entails a focus on the past, a longing for an imagined time when men had more authority and power. I argue that this orientation toward the past stretches back to the Middle Ages. Specifically, the discourses surrounding medieval confession—the mandatory ritual of confessing one’s sins to a priest—continue to shape how white men assert their own power and domination in modern North America. In Europe’s Middle Ag…
Mankind and the Masculine Pleasures of Penance
Through a close examination of the fifteenth-century morality play, Mankind, this article argues that scholarship should expand its current theoretical understandings of medieval penance. Mankind is a dramatization of and reflection on the three stages of sacramental penance (contrition, confession, and satisfaction) and its focus is decidedly gendered: it is a play performed by, for, and about men. Mankind shows how the penitential process enabl…
Mediated Piety: Eucharistic Theology and Lay Devotion in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne
Handlyng Synne, Robert Mannyng of Brunne's early-fourteenth-century penitential manual, continues to be a poem better known than read. Although frequently excerpted in undergraduate anthologies, the poem has attracted very little scholarship, and most of that is descriptive rather than analytic and interpretive. Ironically, most scholars have missed the complexity of its engagement with theology precisely because they have accepted D. W. Robertso…
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Mediated Piety: Eucharistic Theology and Lay Devotion in Robert Mannyng's Handlyng Synne
Handlyng Synne, Robert Mannyng of Brunne's early-fourteenth-century penitential manual, continues to be a poem better known than read. Although frequently excerpted in undergraduate anthologies, the poem has attracted very little scholarship, and most of that is descriptive rather than analytic and interpretive. Ironically, most scholars have missed the complexity of its engagement with theology precisely because they have accepted D. W. Robertso…
Mankind and the Masculine Pleasures of Penance
Through a close examination of the fifteenth-century morality play, Mankind, this article argues that scholarship should expand its current theoretical understandings of medieval penance. Mankind is a dramatization of and reflection on the three stages of sacramental penance (contrition, confession, and satisfaction) and its focus is decidedly gendered: it is a play performed by, for, and about men. Mankind shows how the penitential process enabl…
Speaking of Failure: Modern Masculinity and Medieval Confession
Modern hegemonic masculinity often entails a focus on the past, a longing for an imagined time when men had more authority and power. I argue that this orientation toward the past stretches back to the Middle Ages. Specifically, the discourses surrounding medieval confession—the mandatory ritual of confessing one’s sins to a priest—continue to shape how white men assert their own power and domination in modern North America. In Europe’s Middle Ag…
Law (3 works) · Penitential (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Masculinity (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)