Template:Did you know nominations/John–Eleanor Rykener


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:19, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

John/Eleanor Rykener

 * ... that in 1394 John Rykener ("known as Eleanor") was found committing an "ignominious vice"—probably anal sex—in Cheapside and later confessed to having had sex with both friars and nuns?
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I approve this hook. Catrìona (talk) 11:31, 11 July 2018 (UTC)


 * References:
 * 1) For 1394: Karras, R. M. & Boyd, D. L., 'Ut cum meliere: A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London', in Fradenburg, L. & Freccero, C. (eds), Premodern Sexualities (London, 1996), pp. 99–116, p.111.
 * 2) For "known as Eleanor": Dinshaw, C., Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (London, 1999), p.101.
 * 3) For "ignominious vice": Janin, H., Medieval Justice: Cases and Laws in France, England and Germany, 500-1500 (North Carolina, 2009), p.118.
 * 4) For "anal sex": Goldberg, J., 'John Rykener, Richard II, and the Governance of London', Leeds Studies in English 45 (2014), pp.49–70, p. 49.
 * 5) For "friars": Karras, R. M. & Boyd, D. L., . 'Ut cum meliere: A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London', in Fradenburg, L.; Freccero, C. (eds) Premodern Sexualities (London, 1996), 99–116, pp.111–112.
 * 6) For "nuns": Blud, V. The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000-1400 (Woodbridge, 2017), p.106.
 * Reviewed: Yan Jizhou

Improved to Good Article status by Serial Number 54129 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:11, 29 June 2018 (UTC).


 * I'll review this; comments to follow shortly. Catrìona (talk) 04:51, 11 July 2018 (UTC)