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from the preface of the romance of king arthur, abridged from malory's morte d'arthur by alfred w. pollard and illustrated by arthur rackham

#arthuriana #in a land of myth and legend #idk idk idk there's something about this that fills me with a nostalgic happiness for walking around in a forest and daydreaming #laz.reads

Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey | Parsifal, Rogelio de Eguisquiza | The Temptation of Sir Perceval, Arthur Hacker

+ Clothing during the Middle Ages was, as it still is today, a key method of proclaiming one’s identity. In their role as an individualising feature, clothes were a means of differentiating between the three estates (nobility, clergy and commoners). They signified occupations, marked regional origins and, of course, indicated gender. Clothing, however, functioned as more than merely an identity tag. It was also a creative force in its own right, shaping genders even as it proclaimed them. The thirteenth-century French romance Silence, for example, describes how a girl raised and dressed as a boy develops traits traditionally viewed as masculine, pursues traditionally masculine activities, and even develops a masculinised body (Heldris de Cornua ̈lle, 1992).

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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, John Steinbeck

#merlin delighted in mystery 🥺#the acts of king arthur and his noble knights #arthuriana #merlin tag #i need. perhaps a more generalized tag for this kind of thing. i'll figure that out later.#laz.reads

This double feral and feminine imagery attributed to Alcibiades eventually pushes his representation more towards the wilderness than to a civilizing culture. Such a dichotomy between nature and culture is a strong mark of the rhetoric of gender. That is, as a lion and a woman Alcibiades flees from the moral norm and established policy, outraging the social uses and threatening, in his irreducible difference and his ongoing challenge, the culture of sexual appearance promoted by the polis.

The complex web of gender relations representation, when referring to the ancient world and, more precisely to Alcibiades, is far from the simple naturalizing dichotomy man/woman, if one assumes that an adulterer and a womanizer can be considered generally feminine. An ancient comic fragment by Ferecrates is in fact symptomatic of this gender perspective: “for not being a man (aner), Alcibiades, it seems, is now the husband (aner) of all women around him” (fr. 164 K–A). For not being a man, that is, for not controlling his desires – that one being the most defining representation of the male – Alcibiades is an adulterer.

He longs for him, he hates him and he wants him for himself: The Alcibiades Case between Socrates and Plato, Gabriele Cornelli

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