Katie talks about 14th century sex worker Eleanor Rykener and the tiny glimpse we get into medieval queer life based on one single court document.

Sources:

"Calling [Herself] Eleanor" Gender Labor and Becoming a Woman in the Rykener Case by Kadin Henningsen.

The Trial and Travels of Eleanor Rykener by Liane D. Gallant. <>

"Ut cum muliere" A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth Century London--Premodern Sexualites by Ruth  Karras & David Boyd

"[redacted] / Eleanor Rykener Revisited""--Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies: Essays in Honor of E. Jane Burns. by Ruth Karras & Tom Linkinen

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