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‘Hazrat Bibi Rabia Basri’: Medieval Muslim Women’s Writing and The Good Place?
by Shazia Jagot, University of York In the series finale of the American sitcom, The Good Place, the redeemed demon, Michael (played by the effortless Ted Danson) reels off a list of historic personages newly admitted to the paradisial afterlife: Roberto Clemente, Zora Neale Hurston, St Thomas Aquinas, Hazrat Bibi Rabia Basri, Clara Peller. The […]
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‘Wherefore ye mot nedes retorne’: Eviction from the Medieval Enclosed Garden and the Discourses of Exclusion
by Maria Zygogianni, Swansea University On April 25th, Lambeth Council closed Brockwell Park for the day after approximately 3000 people visited the park the day before, ignoring guidelines for social distancing. Their message was made clear in a warning tweet: if residents don’t comply, they will be kicked out of the park. This tweet would […]
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Hwang Jin-i: A sixteenth-century Korean Kisaeng sijo poet
Justin M. Byron-Davies and Ko Jeong-hee In the early decades of Korea’s Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) a young woman who was renowned for her exceptional beauty, wit and keen intellect wrote the following reproof in verse to an eminent contemporary Neo-Confucian scholar: ‘What cause did I give you / To expect me to appear? / I […]
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‘I shall send yw money to by such stufe as I wull haue’: Margaret Paston’s Savvy Shopping
Spice Cellar in the Shape of a Ship (c.1400) Walters Art Museum [Public domain: Wikimedia Commons ] by Vicki Kay, Bangor University In a letter dated November 5th, 1471, Margaret Paston forcefully wrote to her son John Paston (III), ‘I shall send yw money to by such stufe as I wull haue.’ It seems […]
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Forthcoming Conference: Speaking Internationally: Women’s Literary Culture and the Canon in the Global Middle Ages
26 – 28 June 2019 Bangor University, LL57 2DG Bangor University is delighted to host the latest event in association with the International Research Network, Women’s Literary Culture and the Medieval Canon. About the conference Our last conference, held at Bergen in 2017, encouraged lively conversations that focused predominantly on European texts and authors. At Bangor we […]
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