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Gerson first fully embraced the feminine and embodied subject position implied by the university’s royally granted title, the Daughter of the King, in the course of defending the university’s rights during the summer of 1404. That summer, violence broke out between members of a university procession and the household of a well-connected member of the king’s council. In an characteristically aggressive attempt to assert its privileges, the university sought the punishment of this highly-placed aristocrat, Duke Charles of Savoisy, in addition to the punishment of the members of his household who were directly involved in the violence.1
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For a detailed treatment of the university’s struggles to protect its privileges, see Pearl Kibre, Scholarly Privileges in the Middle Ages: The Rights, Privileges, and Immunities of Scholars and Universities at Bologna, Padua, Paris, and Oxford (Cambridge, MA, 1962), 85–226. For a full account of this particular struggle,
see Laurent Tournier, “L’Université de Paris et Charles de Savoisy: Une affaire d’honneur et d’état,” Bulletin de la Société de l’histoire de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France, 122–124 (1995–1997): 71–88.
For a detailed discussion of the king’s illness and the political difficulties that arose as a consequence, see R.C. Famiglietti, Royal Intrigue: Crisis at the Court of Charles VI, 1392–1420 (New York: AMS Press, Inc., 1986).
See Chapter 2 and William J. Courtenay, Parisian Scholars in the Fourteenth Century: A Social Portrait (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
Gerard J. Campbell, “Clerical Immunities in France During the Reign of Philip III,” Speculum, 39, no. 3 (1964): 404–424.
For this characterization of scholastic masculinity, see Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe, The Middle Ages Series (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), 75–83.
Lester K. Little, “Pride Goes before Avarice,” American Historical Review, 76, no. 1 (1971): 16–49.
In this sense he would be operating in a similar manner to the court philosophers of the later Roman Empire discussed. See Peter Lamont Brown, Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity: Towards a Christian Empire (Madison, W.I.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992). For a discussion of similar strategies from the fourteenth century, see Misty Schieberle, Feminized Counsel and the Literature of Advice in England, 1380–1500 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2014);
and Virginie Minet-Mahy, Esthétique et pouvoir de l’oeuvre allégorique à l’époque de Charles VI (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2005).
Tracy Adams, “Christine de Pizan, Isabeau of Bavaria, and Female Regency,” French Historical Studies, 32, no.1 (Winter 2009): 7.
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McLoughlin, N. (2015). Inspired by Princess Isabelle. In: Jean Gerson and Gender. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137488831_4
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