One of the things I do in my ARCH30760: Early Medieval Ireland course. “We tell histories about what it meant to be a woman [or a man] at a certain time and place, and we track the transformation of those categories over time. ”https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times …
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I think it's easy for students to fall into the trap of viewing past societies as monoliths based on the narrow sources, which I think scholars can do also sometimes. But yes, we do not have to like these societies at all.
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We can poke at the texts too, they’re robust enough
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Yes, exactly. There were absolutely LGBT people in the past. Their lives are mostly hidden from us.
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