Reading Gender: Studies on Medieval Manuscripts and Medievalist Movies

This collection brings together twelve essays published between 1988 and 2014, two of which are here translated into English from (respectively) their original French or German. All the essays use gender as the main category of analysis, whether of late ancient or early medieval texts or of modern medievalist films.

Felice Lifshitz received her PhD in History from Columbia University in 1988. For decades she taught at Florida International University in Miami, where she wrote most of the essays republished in Writing Gender, and in her 2020 collection Writing Normandy: Stories of Saints and Rulers. Since 2011 she has been Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta. Her most recent publication is ＂The Bear Keeper’s Daughter and the Armenian Dwarf: Cinematic Byzantinism in Post-War Europe,＂ in What Byzantinism in İstanbul Is This! Byzantium in Popular Culture (2021), part of a larger project on medievalist historical film.