Kadin Henningsen

“Eleanor”

Screenprint and Letterpress on paper.

Copyright 2019

volume 55 . number 1 | summer 2019

medieval feminist forum

A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

Medieval Feminist Forum

A Journal of Gender and Sexualityvolume 55 number 1 | summer 2019

general editor

Jessica A. Boon, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

editorial board

Jennifer C. Edwards, History Manhattan College

Jessica Barr, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Liz Herbert McAvoy, English, Swansea University

managing editor

Chris Africa

book review editor

Melissa Ridley Elmes, English, Lindenwood University

design & typesetting

Sara T. Sauers, University of Iowa Center for the Book

society for medieval feminist scholarship officers

President: Linda Mitchell (2018–2019), History, University of Missouri,

Kansas City

Vice President: Melissa Ridley Elmes (2018–2019), English, Lindenwood

University

Secretary: Nicole Nolan Sidhu (2018–2024), English, East Carolina University

Treasurer & Membership Coordinator: Amy Vines (2018–2024), English,

UNC—Greensboro

advisory board

Elizabeth Robertson (Founding Editor [2017–2019]), Bettina Bildhauer

(2018-2020), Jonathan Hsy (2018–2020), Erin Jordan (2017–2019), Nicole

Lopez-Jantzen (2019–2021), Roberta Magnani (2017–2019), Kathryn Maude

(2019-2021), Janine Larmon Peterson (2018–2020, Anneliese Pollock Renck

(2017-2019), Samantha Katz Seal (2017–2019) Graduate Student Representatives:

Marjorie Housley (2017–2019), Jenny C. Bledsoe (2018–2020), Rebecca Straple

(2019–2021)

Medieval Feminist Forum is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography,

published by the Modern Language Association, 26 Broadway, 3rd floor;

New York, NY 10004; http://www.mla.org and Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index, http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/

Medieval Feminist Forum, e-issn 2151-6073

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ARTICLES

Visions of Medieval Trans Feminism: An Introduction

Dorothy Kim anD m. W. BychoWsKi 6

Vice & Virtue as Woman?: The Iconography of Gender Identity in the

Late Anglo-Saxon Psychomachia Illustrations

stephenie mcGucKen 42

Imperatrix, Domina, Rex: Conceptualizing the Female King in

Twelfth-Century England

coral lumBley 64

A Space of Her Own: Genderfluidity and Negotiation in The Life of Christina of Markyate

meGhan nestel 100

“Car vallés sui et nient mescine”: Trans Heroism and Literary

Masculinity in Le Roman de Silencecaitlin G. Watt 135

Medieval Trans Lives in Anamorphosis: Looking Back and Seeing

Differently (Pregnant Men and Backward Birth)

BlaKe Gutt 174

The Necropolitics of Narcissus: Confessions of Transgender Suicide

 in the Middle Ages

m. W. BychoWsKi 207

CONTENTS

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“Calling [herself ] Eleanor”: Gender Labor and Becoming a Woman in

the Rykener Case

KaDin henninGsen 249

The Afterward: Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson in the Medieval

Imaginary

Joy ellison anD nicholas hoffman 267

BOOK REVIEWS Writings on the Sisters of San Luca and Their Miraculous Madonna

(Lyn A. Blanchfield) 295

Studying Gender in Medieval Europe: Historical Approaches (Caroline Dunn) 298

The Critics and the Prioress: Antisemitism, Criticism, and Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale

(Melissa Ridley Elmes) 301

Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth

(S. C. Kaplan) 304

Material Culture and Queenship in Fourteenth-Century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398)

(Amy Livingstone) 307

Amalasuintha: The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World

(Nicole Lopez-Jantzen) 310

Middle English Marvels: Magic, Specctacle, and Morality in the Fourteenth Century

(Lynneth J. Miller) 313

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Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text (Anne Spear) 316

Margaret, Queen of Sicily (Misty Urban) 319

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 322

SUBSCRIPTION & MEMBERSHIP FORMS 325