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"This article explores the ongoing development of studies in medieval sexuality as a discipline within the broader fields of medieval studies and medievalist studies."

"Hoe ’n samelewing oor seks dink en praat, ontbloot veel van daardie samelewing se grondliggende opvattinge oor onder meer identiteit, vryheid, moraliteit en geregtigheid. Seksualiteit, die diskoers oor seks, hou dus kultuurkritiese gevolge in."

"[A]lthough Foucault’s references to the Middle Ages in this work again played a crucial analogical and indeed rhetorical role in his critique of modernity, he also expanded the existing body of knowledge on the early Middle Ages, and hence contributed to medieval studies as such."

"Trouens, niemand het die Middeleeue gelees en verstaan soos Foucault nie. Hy het die Middeleeue nie bloot geretoriseer nie, maar ons anders daarna laat kyk – en nie met ’n perverse oog nie."

"This two-part article explores South African philosopher Martin (Marthinus) Versfeld’s (1909–1995) interpretation (shown to belong within the discipline of the history of ideas) and application (indicated as modern-critical) of medieval philosophy during his uninterrupted career as a lecturer and professor of philosophy at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 1937 to 1972."

"By analysing his writings on medieval philosophy for the period 1937 to 1972 according to these criteria it is shown that although Versfeld’s work in several other philosophical disciplines could on justifiable grounds be considered profoundly original, this is not the case regarding his interpretation of the intellectual Middle Ages."

"Hoewel hy wel enkele Middeleeuse spesialisbydraes gelewer het, oorwegend ten opsigte van Augustinus, sou tot die saaklike gevolgtrekking gekom kon word dat Versfeld se forté ten opsigte van die studie van die intellektuele Middeleeue nie gespesialiseerde navorsing was nie, maar sy belese kommentaar daarop en toegewyde onderrig daarvan."

"Deel 1 van hierdie artikel bied ’n navorsingsmotivering vir en inleiding tot ’n eietydse bestekopname van Martin Versfeld se interpretasie en toepassing van Middeleeuse filosofie aan."

"This article provides a systematic and coherent overview of the historical development of monasticism in the medieval Latin West (early fifth to the second half of the 15th century) by synthesising the most recent (2001–2021) specialist outputs in all relevant sections."

"Daar sou nie sprake kon wees van die skepping, bewaring en ontwikkeling van ’n Westerse samelewingsorde as dit nie vir die dinamiese ontwikkeling en institusionele teenwoordigheid van die monnikewese in die Middeleeuse Latynse Weste was nie."

"Juxtaposing relevant passages in the mystical works of several female mystics from the 12th and 13th centuries, bodily fragmentation is described as an innovative form of gender subjectivity, produced by the instigation of female sexual desire within a radically spiritualised context and culturally mediated by the cosmological and medical conventions of the time."

"Dit is dus moontlik om aan te dui dat die fragmentering van die vroulike liggaam, ingevolge waarvan eerder op die verbrokkelde dele en betreklikheid van daardie liggaam as op die eenheid en heelheid daarvan gefokus word, ’n onderbeklemtoonde maar aantoonbare tendens in die werke van etlike prominente vroulike mistici in die sentrale Middeleeue verteenwoordig."

"Perhaps the humbling lesson to be learned from both Foucault’s unique Orientalism and his problematic expedition to Iran in 1978 could be that 'intellectuals' have to be silent sometimes, in order to learn to speak."

"Foucault se selfonderbrekende ondersteuning van kritiese oorwegings tydens die Irannese Revolusie van 1978 tot 1979 was nie ’n argelose verontagsaming van intellektuele verantwoordelikheid nie, maar eerder ’n prinsipiële vermyding van die arrogansie van diegene wat aanspraak maak op gesaghebbende insigte oor sake waaroor 'ons Westerse Ander' eerder moet swyg."

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