Michelle Armstrong‐partida
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4016419 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michelle Armstrong‐partida |
| PRENOMES | Michelle |
| SOBRENOME | Armstrong‐partida |
| ASSINATURA | PARTIDA M A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4346-4772 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Migration of Men
Mobility and migration defined the Mediterranean. In search of adventure, employment, or profession, men and women travelled far from home to try their luck elsewhere. For the enslaved and formerly enslaved, migration and labour was forced upon them. Using archival materials from across the Crown of Aragon, this article suggests gender and economic status conditioned the experience of migrating men in the late medieval period. Attentive to a shar…
Sexual Practices and Fluidities in a Shared Pre-Modern Mediterranean
Any consideration of the premodern Mediterranean must attend to its culture of shared sexual practices. The cultural fluency and mobility of people across the region created spaces where multiple sexualities were legible across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and across linguistic and political differences, suggesting the fluidity of the Mediterranean opened up discrete spaces and permitted transgressive acts. A panoply of sexual practices shows…
Trans* & gender identity in the premodern Mediterranean
This paper explores the intersection and imbrication of transness and Mediterraneaness in the premodern period. How did Mediterranean mobility, spaces, and creativity inform and make possible the ‘transing’ of gender? Re-examining previously considered sources with the benefit of recent scholarship on archival silences and trans history, we suggest that Mediterranean culture, migration, local community, and race shaped possibilities for transgend…
Race, Skin Colour, Enslavement and Sexuality in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
Affective networks across the divide
Though previous scholarship has presumed singlewomen in medieval Southern Europe were nearly non-existent and had few means, notarial sources from the late medieval Mediterranean reveal not only that singlewomen were present in the thriving port cities, but also that they created extensive networks among other women and men in order to survive and in some cases to flourish. Some had children out of wedlock, some were formerly enslaved, others tra…
Amigas and Amichs
This article illuminates the experiences of prostitute-concubines in late medieval Valencia and the Mediterranean. It addresses their economic and affective relationships with amichs and argues that the temporary concubinary union between a prostitute and a low-status man, often a foreigner or itinerant laborer, was important to the gender identity of men at the lower levels of medieval society. Our analysis shows that patrician men who comprised…
Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
This article challenges a long-entrenched model of two discrete marital regimes in northern and southern Europe. Demographer John Hajnal argued in 1965 that a distinctive north-western European Marriage Pattern emerged post-1700 when a large population of unmarried men and women married in their early to late twenties and formed their own household rather than join a multi-generational household. The corollary to this argument is that women in so…
Precarious Manhood
Sexual assault, through coercion or violence, was omnipresent at every level of medieval society and perpetrated by males from all socio-economic backgrounds. This article argues that a specific type of sexual violence—group rape—committed by two or more individuals, was a phase of men’s social development. It explores the connection between adolescence and sexual aggression to show that collective rape was a feature of male youth culture used a …
Finding Amica in the Archives
This article is a call for US-based historians to consider participating in strategic collaboration with fellow academics in their field. Out of a series of lucky encounters in person and with documentary collections, the authors, both archival historians, created a generous and expansive collaboration both in research and writing. Galvanized by the shift in working conditions occasioned by the coronavirus, the authors map out how the field in th…
Concubinage, Illegitimacy and Fatherhood
Concubinage, Clandestine Marriage, and Gender in the Visitation Records of Fourteenth-Century Catalonia
Priestly Wives
Travelling through the foothills of the Pyrenees, the episcopal visitor Guerau Caluet arrived in the parish of Sant Martí de la Vajol on an autumn day in 1314. As in so many parishes visited on his journey, the visitor found that the rector Berenguer kept a concubine, and in this case, was also known to celebrate mass with his grandson and young son. This was not, however, the only blatant violation of canon law and synodal statutes. Berenguer te…
Concubinage, Clandestine Marriage, and Gender in the Visitation Records of Fourteenth-Century Catalonia
Finding Amica in the Archives
This article is a call for US-based historians to consider participating in strategic collaboration with fellow academics in their field. Out of a series of lucky encounters in person and with documentary collections, the authors, both archival historians, created a generous and expansive collaboration both in research and writing. Galvanized by the shift in working conditions occasioned by the coronavirus, the authors map out how the field in th…
Priestly Wives
Travelling through the foothills of the Pyrenees, the episcopal visitor Guerau Caluet arrived in the parish of Sant Martí de la Vajol on an autumn day in 1314. As in so many parishes visited on his journey, the visitor found that the rector Berenguer kept a concubine, and in this case, was also known to celebrate mass with his grandson and young son. This was not, however, the only blatant violation of canon law and synodal statutes. Berenguer te…
Concubinage, Clandestine Marriage, and Gender in the Visitation Records of Fourteenth-Century Catalonia
Concubinage, Illegitimacy and Fatherhood
Precarious Manhood
Sexual assault, through coercion or violence, was omnipresent at every level of medieval society and perpetrated by males from all socio-economic backgrounds. This article argues that a specific type of sexual violence—group rape—committed by two or more individuals, was a phase of men’s social development. It explores the connection between adolescence and sexual aggression to show that collective rape was a feature of male youth culture used a …
Finding Amica in the Archives
This article is a call for US-based historians to consider participating in strategic collaboration with fellow academics in their field. Out of a series of lucky encounters in person and with documentary collections, the authors, both archival historians, created a generous and expansive collaboration both in research and writing. Galvanized by the shift in working conditions occasioned by the coronavirus, the authors map out how the field in th…
Affective networks across the divide
Though previous scholarship has presumed singlewomen in medieval Southern Europe were nearly non-existent and had few means, notarial sources from the late medieval Mediterranean reveal not only that singlewomen were present in the thriving port cities, but also that they created extensive networks among other women and men in order to survive and in some cases to flourish. Some had children out of wedlock, some were formerly enslaved, others tra…
Amigas and Amichs
This article illuminates the experiences of prostitute-concubines in late medieval Valencia and the Mediterranean. It addresses their economic and affective relationships with amichs and argues that the temporary concubinary union between a prostitute and a low-status man, often a foreigner or itinerant laborer, was important to the gender identity of men at the lower levels of medieval society. Our analysis shows that patrician men who comprised…
Singlewomen in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
This article challenges a long-entrenched model of two discrete marital regimes in northern and southern Europe. Demographer John Hajnal argued in 1965 that a distinctive north-western European Marriage Pattern emerged post-1700 when a large population of unmarried men and women married in their early to late twenties and formed their own household rather than join a multi-generational household. The corollary to this argument is that women in so…
Trans* & gender identity in the premodern Mediterranean
This paper explores the intersection and imbrication of transness and Mediterraneaness in the premodern period. How did Mediterranean mobility, spaces, and creativity inform and make possible the ‘transing’ of gender? Re-examining previously considered sources with the benefit of recent scholarship on archival silences and trans history, we suggest that Mediterranean culture, migration, local community, and race shaped possibilities for transgend…
Race, Skin Colour, Enslavement and Sexuality in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
Sexual Practices and Fluidities in a Shared Pre-Modern Mediterranean
Any consideration of the premodern Mediterranean must attend to its culture of shared sexual practices. The cultural fluency and mobility of people across the region created spaces where multiple sexualities were legible across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and across linguistic and political differences, suggesting the fluidity of the Mediterranean opened up discrete spaces and permitted transgressive acts. A panoply of sexual practices shows…
The Migration of Men
Mobility and migration defined the Mediterranean. In search of adventure, employment, or profession, men and women travelled far from home to try their luck elsewhere. For the enslaved and formerly enslaved, migration and labour was forced upon them. Using archival materials from across the Crown of Aragon, this article suggests gender and economic status conditioned the experience of migrating men in the late medieval period. Attentive to a shar…
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