| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 318 pages) : illustrations |
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Medieval cultures ; 27 |
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Medieval cultures ; v. 27.
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| Contents |
Queering Ovidian myth: bestiality and desire in Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea / Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn -- Sodomy's mark: Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, and the medieval theory of authorship / Susan Schibanoff -- The pose of the queer: Dante's gaze, Brunetto Latini's body / Michael Camille -- Response: presidential improprieties and medieval categories: the absurdity of heterosexuality / Karma Lochrie -- Sodomitic Moor: queerness in the narrative of Reconquista / Gregory S. Hutcheson -- Chaste subjects: gender, heroism, and desire in the Grail quest / Peggy McCracken -- The King's boyfriend: Froissart's political theatre of 1326 / Claire Sponsler -- Response: "Just like a woman": queer history, womanizing the body, and the boys in Arnaud's band / Francesc Canadé Sautman -- Translating the foreskin / Kathleen Biddick -- Shameful pleasures: up close and dirty with Chaucer, flesh and the word / Glenn Burger -- Ecce Homo / Garrett P.J. Epp -- Medieval/postmodern: HIV/AIDS and the temporality of crisis / Steven F. Kruger -- Response: Return of the repressed: the sequel / Larry Scanlon |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume present new work that, in one way or another, "queers" stabilized conceptions of the Middle Ages, allowing us to see the period and its systems of sexuality in radically different, off-center, and revealing ways |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
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Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
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Homosexuality.
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Homosexuality -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Social history -- Medieval.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burger, Glenn, 1954- editor.
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Kruger, Steven F., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780816652761 |
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0816652767 |
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9780816690565 |
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0816690561 |
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