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queer medievalist researching the global origins of ideas about sex/race in medieval English lit. helicopter parent to a kitty. phd. (he/him). views my own.

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    Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

    @MedievalPhDemon is up first talking about language making in this #mla2019 session

    6:39 AM - 4 Jan 2019
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      2. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Confronting questions about how we understand the relationship between English and multilingualism in Middle Ages.

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      3. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        We should retheorize how we consider vernacular entirely. Tendency seems to be to think of vernacular English as a stable category, rather than of Englishes. Our tendency to define vernacularity against other stable languages reproduces 19th-cent hierarchies of language

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      4. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Focusing on Constance tales. Starting with Chaucer, where Latin is a contact language (Constance’s corrupt Latin). Her Latin gestures to three different kinds of Latin. In Gowers version, there is only one Latin reference.

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      5. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Saxon and Roman become equivalent languages in gowers text. Constance only matters until cultural reproduction of Christianity happens (with her son assending to Roman throne).

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      6. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Margery Kempe next! Shyama says that men don’t believe a woman “could have god on speed-dial.” Margery is a universal translator of god. A miracle tied to her own exclusion. Margery’s illegibility with English priests overcome by linguistic legibility with a foreign priest

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      7. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        We do not know what language the foreign priest presents her story in. A third language.

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      8. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Now mandeville. Shyama on a (brilliant) roll. Focusing on mandevilles authors interest in alphabets of Hebrew and Arabic. Inclusion of alphabets may indicate anxiety about Jewish passing. Description of “Saracen” alphabet slightly different. Comparison of Saracen and English

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      9. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        The 19th philologists also loved comparing English to other languages, implying that they were pre-historical or outside of history. The point is not recording alphabets so much as their signifying power of cultural distinctiveness.

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      10. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Mandeville does not create a hierarchy of alphabet. Returning to the history of the extermination of indigenous languages of the United States. System of language ideology. Vernacular language always emerging, always in process.

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      11. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        That was amazeballs!

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      12. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Next up @JonathanHsy on deafness, ethnicity, and sister tongues. Thinking about vernacular with a difference: sign language and historical language.

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      13. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Talking about Teresa de Cartegena. She become fully deaf in adulthood, after becoming monastic. Has been examined as part of feminist women’s writing, ethnic studies (Hispanic and Jewish studies, as she was a member of prominent converted family), and disability studies

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      14. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        What might this deaf Medieval nun have to say for modern Deaf culture and studies? Disability studies must pay more attention to intersectional approaches.

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      15. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Deaf culture = community defined by a shared language (such as ASL). Not just to be understood as a disability but as a linguistic minority within a minority culture.

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      16. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Sign languages have just as much of a claim to vernacularity. Many sign languages. A Deafnicity.

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      17. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Teresa’s account (1475) defines deafness as an “island” of isolation. She says she no longer wishes to hear or speak. She turns deafness into a divine gift. Defines suffering in visual terms.

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      18. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Redefining meanings of solitude. Converting memory into a visual rhetoric. Monastic life lends a thickness to this. Silence and gesture language common. Limited gestures used to communicate.

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      19. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        She anticipates a modern idea of Deaf gain. New literary grammar of embodied gesture. God makes a signal with his hand to her that she be quiet. A gesture that corresponds to 15th-c Iberian Cistercian gesture meaning “be silent.”

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      20. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Interested in the narrative gesture of a shared community of practice. Even if deafness is isolating, she notes that it also provides some forms of social critique.

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      21. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Before becoming deaf, she had access to university education, despite her gender. She uses a closed-ear metaphor (another known gesture). Willful silence is a way to enact a mode of resistance (to speaking culture).

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      22. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Modern deaf scholars read Teresa as precursor to modern deaf writers. Many see her book as the first deaf autobiography.sees herself as part of a community of infirmos, which could include many forms of disability, not just deaf.

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      23. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Claimed by some as first writer to be both Spanish and deaf. Bond between past and present. A queer engroupment. Then reclaiming of Teresa can get us to think about how gender, deafness, and ethnicity can intersect l.

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      24. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        She came from the most prominent converso family in the area. We must think about intersections of identity with ethnicity. Could be a coded discussion of converso identity (she mostly cites OT sources, etc). Deafnicity is a new coinage by deaf indigenous scholars.

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      25. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Deaf studies should@join hands with medieval scholarship. Contemporary deaf literary reception reframes her. Attend to dispersals of language and cultural belonging in deaf cultures today.

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      26. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Now @AdrienneBoyarin on medieval English jews. Spoke French among themselves, while Hebrew was language of authority. No evidence that they spoke English.

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      27. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Latin a language of contact. Anglo-Norman spoke. Lived in close quarters with English. Would French have remained primary in such a context?

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      28. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Some suggest that they must have developed good English. Evidence of Anglo jewish women helps us tell a new story.

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      29. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Various kinds of evidence for Hebrew use among Jewish women in England. Evidence of their use of Hebrew writing, books, and legal documents. Woman sought control of household Hebrew books in one case.

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      30. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Another woman went to court to get her dead husbands books. Her daughter later did tried to do so as well through her grandfather. Women understood to have strongest claim on books.

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      31. Erik "Mr. Bloodaxe" Wade‏ @erik_kaars 4 Jan 2019

        Also made claims on Latin and Anglo Norman books. Legal cases suggest a trade in books between Jewish women and universities such as Oxford.

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