7 - The Saints, Satellites, and Sass Series, Part 3: Caranog (N.A., 1100 CE)

Queering Arthur

Welcome to 🌈Queering Arthur👑, our seventh episode of the podcast, and third installment of the Saints, Satellites, and Sass series on Arthurian Hagiographies. Join us in exploring ✨queer interpretations🧠 of 🫅🏾The Life of St. Caranog📜. The Context for the episodes in this series was covered in previous episodes, but a deeper dive is available in member’s only episodes, available to knights of the virtual round table. Discussion includes: historical connection between chivalry, spiritual awakenings, and the ‘stay woke’ phenomenon; the importance and history of Sir Robert Cotton’s collection of medieval British manuscripts, including the present hagiography and Beowulf; The British Library and handling ancient manuscripts; and the English language over time, past, present, and future. Analysis in the episode includes: How conceptualizing phenomena as spectrums dismantles static categories, using rainbows as an example; gender as a technology; phallic objects in architecture according to Henri Lefebvre; yonic structures as the source of the phallic architecture; Andrew Breeze’s analysis of the Harbor of Guellit as an example of queering by challenging accepted narratives.

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As always, we're discussing these questions on our discord:

1. What is the meaning of the altar that St. Caranog receives, described as a color that ‘nobody could discern’?

2. Is the portrayal of Arthur as an undisciplined and foiled character consonant or dissonant with traditional Arthurian hero narratives?

3. Does the connection between chivalry and progressive values in the text require further support or if it transcends typical interpretations of both concepts.

4. How is the modern term 'woke' is used to draw parallels to historical awakenings and progressive values?

5. How does the conversation about Cotton’s library and the cataloging system shed light on the preservation and organization of medieval texts?

6. How are nonbinary and transgender identities like the light spectrum and how do they go beyond it?

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