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| Semester | spring semester 2021 |
| Course frequency | Once only |
| Lecturers | Aden Kumler (aden.kumler@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | In this seminar we will explore the questions and insights that feminist and queer-analytic approaches have introduced into the study of medieval art. Topics and questions to be taken up include: the salience of the concepts of heterosexuality, homosexuality, trans- and queer-identifications to the medieval period and its works of art and practices of beholding; medieval visual constructions &/or subversions of gender(s) and the performance of gender(s); and the visual dynamics of misogyny in medieval art. The majority of the readings and the language of instruction will be in English. In diesem Seminar beschäftigen wir uns mit den Fragen und Erkenntnissen, die feministische und queer-theoretische Ansätze in die Erforschung der Kunst des Mittelalters einbringen. Themen, die im Vordergrund stehen, umfassen: die Bedeutung der Konzepte der Heterosexualität, Homosexualität, Trans- und Queer-Identitätsformen für die Epoche des Mittelalters, ihre Kunst und Sehpraktiken; mittelalterliche visuelle Konstruktionen und/oder Subversionen von gender(s) und die Performance von gender(s); und die visuellen Dynamiken von Misogynie in der Kunst des Mittelalters. Ein Großteil der Lektüre und der Unterrichtssprache ist Englisch. |
| Bibliography | - Roland Betancourt, Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020). - John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1980). - Carlee A. Bradbury and Michelle Moseley-Christian, eds., Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art (New York: Springer, 2017). - Michael Camille, “The Pose of the Queer: Dante’s Gaze, Brunetto Latini’s Body,” in Queering the Middle Ages, Glen Burger and Steven F. Kruger, eds., Medieval Cultures 27 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001): 57–86. - Michael Camille, “‘For Our Devotion and Pleasure’: The Sexual Objects of Jean, Duc de Berry,” Art History 24 (2001): 169–94. - Emma Campbell and Robert Mills, eds., Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image, The New Middle Ages (Seeing Gender, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). - Madeline H. Caviness, “Feminism, Gender Studies, and Medieval Studies,” Diogenes 57, no. 1 (2010): 30–45. - Madeleine Caviness, “Patron or Matron? A Capetian Bride and a Vade Mecum for Her Marriage Bed,” Speculum 68 (1993): 333–62. - Madeline Harrison Caviness, “The Feminist Project: Pressuring the Medieval Object,” in Art in the Medieval West and Its Audience (Aldershot, 2001), 13–21. - Martha Easton, “The Wound of Christ, the Mouth of Hell: Appropriations and Inversions of Female Anatomy in the Later Middle Ages,” in Tributes to Jonathan J. G. Alexander: The Making and Meaning of Illuminated Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts, Art & Architecture, ed. Susan L’Engle and Gerald B. Guest (London, 2006), 395–414. - Martha Easton, “Feminism,” in Medieval Art History Today - Critical Terms, ed. Nina A. Rowe (Kalamazoo, MI, 2012), 99–112. - Ruth Evans, ed., A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Middle Ages (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). - Roberta Gilchrist, “The Contested Garden: Gender, Space and Metaphor in the Medieval English Castle,” in Gender and Archaeology: Contesting the Past (London; New York: Routledge, 1999): 109–45. - Saisha Grayson, “The Problem of Transvestite Saints for Medieval Art, Identity, and Identification,” Medieval Feminist Forum 45, no. 2 (2009): 138–74. - Jeffrey Hamburger, Nuns As Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997). - Amy M. Hollywood, “The Normal, the Queer, and the Middle Ages,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 10, no. 2 (2001): 173–79. - Jitske Jasperse, Medieval Women, Material Culture, and Power : Matilda Plantagenet and Her Sisters, Gender and Power in the Premodern World (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, 2020). - Mathew Kuefler, ed., The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). - Sherry C. M. Lindquist, “Gender,” in Medieval Art History Today - Critical Terms, ed. Nina A. Rowe (Kalamazoo, MI, 2012), 113–30. - Robert Mills, Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015). John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century (Chicago ; London: University of Chicago Press, 1980). - Robert Mills, “Ecce Homo,” in Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, and Saints in Late Medieval Europe, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture 1 (London; New York: Routledge, 2002), 152–73. - Matthew M. Reeve, “Michael Camille’s Queer Middle Ages,” in The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography, ed. Colum Hourihane (London; New York: Routledge, 2017), 154–71. - James A. Schultz, “Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 15, no. 1 (2006): 14–29. - Karl Whittington, “Queer,” in Medieval Art History Today - Critical Terms, ed. Nina A. Rowe (Kalamazoo, MI, 2012), 157–70. |
| Admission requirements | Für den Besuch der Seminare sollte das Grundstudium abgeschlossen sein. |
| Course application | Anmeldung über Mona notwendig. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | Online course |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
| wöchentlich | Monday | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz - |
| Date | Time | Room |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 01.03.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 08.03.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 15.03.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 22.03.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 29.03.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 05.04.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | Ostern |
| Monday 12.04.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 19.04.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 26.04.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 03.05.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 10.05.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 17.05.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Monday 24.05.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | Pfingstmontag |
| Monday 31.05.2021 | 14.15-16.00 | - Online Präsenz -, -- |
| Modules |
Modul: Kunsthistorische Projektarbeit (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Kunsttheorie und Methodik (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Kunsttheorie und Methodik (Master's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Mittelalter (Bachelor's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Praxis und Forschung (Master's degree subject: Art History) Modul: Profil: Mittelalter und Mittelalterrezeption (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Vertiefung Themenfelder der Geschlechterforschung (Master's degree subject: Gender Studies) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree program: Art History and Image Theory) Modul: Werk und Kontext (Master's degree subject: Art History) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment details | Referate oder Essays und regelmässige aktive Beteiligung. |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration; dereg.: not required |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | no repetition |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Fachbereich Kunstgeschichte |