François·e Charmaille
@fcharmaille.bsky.social
Research fellow, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University. They/them. Transing grammar; transing the climate.
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Out today! Sodomy is "the sin against nature." But what is "nature"? "Heterosexuality" seems like the obvious answer, but such a term is anachronistic... Sodomy might be better understood as the disruption of the division between male and female.
Out today! Sodomy is "the sin against nature." But what is "nature"? "Heterosexuality" seems like the obvious answer, but such a term is anachronistic... Sodomy might be better understood as the disruption of the division between male and female.
June 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Out today! Sodomy is "the sin against nature." But what is "nature"? "Heterosexuality" seems like the obvious answer, but such a term is anachronistic... Sodomy might be better understood as the disruption of the division between male and female.
Very pleased that my article on sodomy and the Pardoner will appear in what promises to be a rich and lively issue of The Chaucer Review.
May 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Very pleased that my article on sodomy and the Pardoner will appear in what promises to be a rich and lively issue of The Chaucer Review.
Reposted by François·e Charmaille
Also enjoyed how some of what you were saying, especially in the context of historic ideas of gender, overlapped with this Tumblr post, but like, with an actual academic basis. an-ruraiocht.tumblr.com/post/7790442...
bidh ionann leacht damh is dó
the thing about using modern labels to describe and delimit historical identities and relationships is that it implies that modern labels describe all of the types of identities and relationships that...
an-ruraiocht.tumblr.com
May 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Also enjoyed how some of what you were saying, especially in the context of historic ideas of gender, overlapped with this Tumblr post, but like, with an actual academic basis. an-ruraiocht.tumblr.com/post/7790442...
Friday 2 May, 5pm, in Cambridge: I will be speaking at the ASNC Research Seminar, about The Contingent Middle Ages. The Middle Ages are generative, are worth engaging with, because they are inessential. I'm very excited to share this work.
GR04 in the Faculty of English.
GR04 in the Faculty of English.
April 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Friday 2 May, 5pm, in Cambridge: I will be speaking at the ASNC Research Seminar, about The Contingent Middle Ages. The Middle Ages are generative, are worth engaging with, because they are inessential. I'm very excited to share this work.
GR04 in the Faculty of English.
GR04 in the Faculty of English.
Reposted by François·e Charmaille
🥳 It’s publication day! 🥳
IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY is now available to buy and online via institutional access.
Read more about the book and buy a copy at 20% off with code CUP20: cup.columbia.edu/book/impossi...
Or access online: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY is now available to buy and online via institutional access.
Read more about the book and buy a copy at 20% off with code CUP20: cup.columbia.edu/book/impossi...
Or access online: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
January 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🥳 It’s publication day! 🥳
IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY is now available to buy and online via institutional access.
Read more about the book and buy a copy at 20% off with code CUP20: cup.columbia.edu/book/impossi...
Or access online: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
IMPOSSIBLE RECOVERY is now available to buy and online via institutional access.
Read more about the book and buy a copy at 20% off with code CUP20: cup.columbia.edu/book/impossi...
Or access online: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...
Writers over the course of the Middle Ages interpreted the classical myth of Tiresias's sex change as an allegory for the cycle of the seasons. This led to the emergence of a strange notion: that the seasons have genders, that the climate is trans.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Trans Climates of the European Middle Ages, 500–1300 | Speculum: Vol 98, No 3
Abstract This article gathers evidence of a distinct strand of writing in Western Europe from the sixth century onwards which concerns itself with the relation between the seasons and sexual differenc...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 20, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Writers over the course of the Middle Ages interpreted the classical myth of Tiresias's sex change as an allegory for the cycle of the seasons. This led to the emergence of a strange notion: that the seasons have genders, that the climate is trans.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Were there medieval medical theories of intersex? Was there a distinction between sex and gender? How were humors related to sex/gender? What does it do to a woman if she has too much greenness in her body?
I wrote about it in Exemplaria, and it's Open Access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I wrote about it in Exemplaria, and it's Open Access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Intersex Between Sex And Gender In Cause Et Cure
This article argues that intersex is present in medieval medical texts outside of the medieval concept of hermaphroditism. The phlegmatic man, the phlegmatic woman, and the sanguine man, in the twe...
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November 19, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Were there medieval medical theories of intersex? Was there a distinction between sex and gender? How were humors related to sex/gender? What does it do to a woman if she has too much greenness in her body?
I wrote about it in Exemplaria, and it's Open Access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I wrote about it in Exemplaria, and it's Open Access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Since I've recently joined I may as well share some of my previous work.
What kind of political work do we perform by claiming people in the premodern past were "gay"? How can an encounter with the past transform us? I wrote about it in Diacritics. muse.jhu.edu/article/845151
What kind of political work do we perform by claiming people in the premodern past were "gay"? How can an encounter with the past transform us? I wrote about it in Diacritics. muse.jhu.edu/article/845151
Project MUSE - Queer Strategies of Gay History: Boswell's "Weapons", Foucault's <i>Expérience</i>
muse.jhu.edu
November 18, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Since I've recently joined I may as well share some of my previous work.
What kind of political work do we perform by claiming people in the premodern past were "gay"? How can an encounter with the past transform us? I wrote about it in Diacritics. muse.jhu.edu/article/845151
What kind of political work do we perform by claiming people in the premodern past were "gay"? How can an encounter with the past transform us? I wrote about it in Diacritics. muse.jhu.edu/article/845151
