![]() A whole comical debate breaks out between Nature and Nurture about Silence’s gender, prompting Reason to step in and, ultimately, she sides with Nurture - Silence was raised a man and should continue to be a man.Īs Silence concludes, “I have a mouth too hard for kisses/and arms too rough for embraces. Pretty soon, though, Nature (personified) feels she has been cheated as she has made Silence more beautiful than “a thousand of the most beautiful girls,” yet no one recognizes them as female. ![]() As they grow, they are raised as a knight and constantly praised as the “best man in England.” ![]() In the 13th-century French romance, Le Roman de Silence, or Silence, the titular character is born a woman, but lives as a man in order to inherit their father’s land. “Paying attention to what was difficult in the past may tell us how far we have come, but that is not all it will tell us it also makes visible the damage we live with in the present.”īecause queer history has been obscured and erased throughout time, non-binary identities are readily framed as “problems of a modern age,” when in fact, they are questions and identities we’ve had for centuries.īy surfacing the trans identities of the Middle Ages we can reclaim some of our lost history, as well as challenge homophobic and transphobic claims surrounding them. These figures-both fictional and historical - challenged and complicated the prevailing definitions of gender identity, much like trans individuals do in our society today.Īs Heather Love writes in her book on lost queer history, Feeling Backward: In fact, during the Middle Ages, there are several key figures who expressed a queer identity analogous to a modern trans identity. It is through this variety of definitions of sex and gender passed down through the ages that premodern people also struggled to define what it meant to be a “man” and what it meant to be a “woman” they also wrestled with the nature of their sexuality. As David Halperin, author of How to Do the History of Homosexuality, states, “We have preserved and retained different definitions of sex and gender from our premodern past.” Questions surrounding sexual orientation and gender expression have existed since long before modern times, even before the 20th century. I often hear statements that queer identity “didn’t exist in my time” and that queerness is a “problem of the millennial generation,” specifically when dealing with trans individuals. Queer identity and expression is often seen as a very au currant issue in today’s society. ![]() I found recordings of “Deus in Aujitorium” and listening to the recordings of the exemplar motet before and during preparation of the project, as well as making the recordings available during the Artisan Challenge sessions at events, enhanced the creative process.Modified from flickr / Num Non-binary identities don’t belong to the modern age - we’ve had them for centuries. While constantly consulting references listed as well as society Laurels and Grant-level award recipient, the following was taken into consideration: page layout, calligraphy hand, musical notation and layout, illuminated figures and other decoration (materials and pigments, techniques used for modeling and brushwork, the iconography (subject, composition, symbology) and style), as well as the relationship between text and images. After choosing an exemplar, a digital reproduction of high quality provided by the museum (University of Montpellier, France) holding the original was examined as closely as possible using a magnifying glass and making detailed notes. The “scroll” was prepared in the period style using period materials, methods and tools whenever feasible. For the Anno Societatis 50 Artisan’s Challenge I chose to prepare a later period medieval musical manuscript page (folio) with illumination and musical notation. ![]()
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