Queering The Medieval Mediterranean Transcultural Sea Of Sex Gender Identity And Culture
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Queering The Medieval Mediterranean Transcultural Sea Of Sex Gender Identity And Culture
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-07-26
Queering The Medieval Mediterranean Transcultural Sea Of Sex Gender Identity And Culture written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-26 with History categories.
Queering the Medieval Mediterranean analyzes the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses. It highlights the importance of queerness and sexuality developed on the Mediterranean trade routes.
The Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades
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Author : Ahmed M. A. Sheir
language : en
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-22
The Prester John Legend Between East And West During The Crusades written by Ahmed M. A. Sheir and has been published by Trivent Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book considers the history of the Prester John legend and its impact on the Crusades, investigating its entangled mythical history between East and West during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The present study thus responds to the still pressing need for a comprehensive historical investigation of the twelfth and thirteenth crusading history of the legend and its impact on the Muslim-Crusader encounters, examining various Latin, Arabic, Syriac, and Coptic accounts. It further reflects on new eastern aspects of the legend, presenting a new Arab scholarly view. This book first charts a pre-history of the legend in the late ancient Christian prophecy of the Last Emperor down to the emergence of the legend in the mid-twelfth century. Second, the work presents a historical discussion of the legend and its association with actual occurrences in the Far East and the Levant, analysing the legend history under the crusading crisis and the imperial papal schism in Europe. Meanwhile, the work considers the vague Prester John Letter addressed to Manuel I Komnenus, Byzantine Emperor, and its elaborate conception of a mythical eastern kingdom, revealing imaginative parallels on the wondrous East and legendary Eastern Christian kings in Arabic Muslim and Christian accounts of the Muslim geographer and cartographer al-Idrisi, the Coptic Abu al-Makarim and the Syriac Ibn al-'Ibri (Bar Hebraeus), among others. Moreover, the book examines how the legend impacted war and peace processes between the Ayyubids and the Crusaders during the Fifth Crusade against Egypt (1217-1221), revealing how it was mingled with Arabic and Eastern Christian prophecies at the time. The study concludes by investigating the perception of Prester John by the papal and European envoys to the Mongols in the thirteenth century, revealing how the legend was instrumentalised (and even weaponised) to establish a Latin-Mongol crusade through a parallel exploration of relevant Latin, Arabic and Syriac sources.
Citizens And Sodomites Persecution And Perception Of Sodomy In The Southern Low Countries 1400 1700
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Author : Jonas Roelens
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Citizens And Sodomites Persecution And Perception Of Sodomy In The Southern Low Countries 1400 1700 written by Jonas Roelens and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with History categories.
The Southern Low Countries were among Europe’s core regions for the repression of sodomy during the late medieval period. As the first comprehensive study on sodomy in the Southern Low Countries, this book charts the prosecution of sodomy in some of the region’s leading cities, such as Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp, from 1400 to 1700 and explains the reasons behind local differences and variations in the intensity of prosecution over time. Through a critical examination of a range of sources, this study also considers how the urban fabric perceived sodomy and provides a broader interpretive framework for its meaning within the local culture.
Queering The Middle Ages
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Author : Glenn Burger
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2001
Queering The Middle Ages written by Glenn Burger and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
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. While not denying the force of gender and sexual norms, the authors consider how historical work has written out or over what might have been non-normative in medieval sex and culture, and they work to restore a sense of such instabilities. At the same time, they ask how this pursuit might allow us not only to re-envision medieval studies but also to rethink how we study culture from our current set of vantage points within postmodernity. The authors focus on particular medieval moments: Christine de Pizan's representation of female sexuality; chastity in the Grail romances; the illustration of "the sodomite" in manuscript commentaries on Dante's Commedia; the complex ways that sexuality inflected English national politics at the time of Edward II's deposition; the construction of the sodomitic Moor by Reconquista Spain. Throughout, their work seeks to disturb a logic that sees the past as significant only insofar as it may make sense for and of a stabilized present.
Queer Iberia
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Author : Josiah Blackmore
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 1999-08-12
Queer Iberia written by Josiah Blackmore and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-08-12 with Social Science categories.
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries when political hegemony in the region passed from Muslim to Christian hands. To show how sexual otherness is most evident at points of cultural conflict, the contributors use a variety of methodologies and perspectives and consider source materials that originated in Castilian, Latin, Arabic, Catalan, and Galician-Portuguese. Covering topics from the martydom of Pelagius to the exploits of the transgendered Catalina de Erauso, this volume is the first to provide a comprehensive historical examination of the relations among race, gender, sexuality, nation-building, colonialism, and imperial expansion in medieval and early modern Iberia. Some essays consider archival evidence of sexual otherness or evaluate the use of “deviance” as a marker for cultural and racial difference, while others explore both male and female homoeroticism as literary-aesthetic discourse or attempt to open up canonical texts to alternative readings. Positing a queerness intrinsic to Iberia’s historical process and cultural identity, Queer Iberia will challenge the field of Iberian studies while appealing to scholars of medieval, cultural, Hispanic, gender, and gay and lesbian studies. Contributors. Josiah Blackmore, Linde M. Brocato, Catherine Brown, Israel Burshatin, Daniel Eisenberg, E. Michael Gerli, Roberto J. González-Casanovas, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Mark D. Jordan, Sara Lipton, Benjamin Liu, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Michael Solomon, Louise O. Vasvári, Barbara Weissberger
Historia De La Homosexualidad Femenina En Occidente
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Author : Francisco Vázquez García
language : es
Publisher: LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA
Release Date : 2023-11-06
Historia De La Homosexualidad Femenina En Occidente written by Francisco Vázquez García and has been published by LOS LIBROS DE LA CATARATA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-06 with History categories.
¿Cómo abordar la homosexualidad femenina a través de las épocas? ¿Es posible establecer una continuidad temporal en el modo en que era vivido y percibido el homoerotismo (y la homosociabilidad) entre mujeres? ¿Son válidas y universales las categorías de orientación sexual e identidad erótica para su comprensión histórica? La lesbohistoria ha tratado en profundidad y enriquecido estos temas y debates, señalando los anacronismos y distorsiones que implica postular una identidad homosexual inherente a la condición humana y una “personalidad lesbiana” transhistórica. Desde este mismo enfoque, este libro elabora una completa síntesis de la homosexualidad femenina en Occidente, que se inicia en la antigüedad grecorromana, continúa en la época medieval, moderna y contemporánea, y concluye en el presente. Su propósito, a través de fuentes, prácticas, representaciones, discursos y testimonios diversos, es dar cuenta tanto de las continuidades y similitudes históricas —empezando por el rechazo e invisibilidad de las relaciones homoeróticas femeninas, al suplantar el poder masculino o desafiar el orden patriarcal— como de las diferencias históricas —también con respecto a la homosexualidad masculina—, constituyendo una valiosa aportación a los todavía escasos estudios dedicados hasta la fecha a la lesbohistoria en el mundo hispanohablante. Francisco Vázquez García (ed.) es catedrático de Filosofía en la Universidad de Cádiz. Ha publicado ampliamente sobre historia cultural de la sexualidad. Es también editor de Historia de la homosexualidad masculina en Occidente (Catarata, 2022).
Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric
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Author : David Townsend
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-01-05
Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric written by David Townsend and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-05 with History categories.
Traces the silences through which medieval literature spoke volumes about closeted sexual behavior and identities.
Gender In The Premodern Mediterranean
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Author : Megan Moore
language : en
Publisher: Medieval and Renaissance Texts
Release Date : 2019
Gender In The Premodern Mediterranean written by Megan Moore and has been published by Medieval and Renaissance Texts this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Literary Collections categories.
Drawing upon literary, historical, and visual evidence, this collection of interdisciplinary essays examines how the Mediterranean shaped practices of gender in the premodern era. This volume bridges the gap between gender studies and Mediterranean studies, which have a natural fit with each other in their interest on defining identity carefully through connectivity and attentiveness to cultural hegemonies. The essays in this volume build off of this double approach to offer a unique contribution to the field, and use gender to understand the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean to understand premodern gender. Whereas other volumes have examined gender in the premodern period or premodern Mediterranean Studies, to date no other volume has sought to explore the intersection of the two. The interdisciplinary nature of the essays will make them useful to both scholars and teachers, for they will combine theory and practice in a length that makes them easily accessible to advanced students as well as specialized researchers. The first chapter provides a critical overview of the scholarship on Mediterranean studies as a field of area studies as well as an overview of gender studies in the medieval period. As such, the volume will be useful for students, teachers, and researchers, and its interdisciplinary nature reflects the diaspora of the Mediterranean itself.
Sexuality In Medieval Europe
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Author : Ruth Mazo Karras
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-03-12
Sexuality In Medieval Europe written by Ruth Mazo Karras and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-12 with History categories.
‘The best short introduction to medieval sexuality that I have read: a remarkable book.’ -Vern Bullough, Reviews in History 'Undergraduate and graduate students will find in Karras’ book an extremely helpful guide to what can be a confusing and perplexing body of scholarship. Even established scholars are likely to find it enlightening as well as enjoyable.' - James Brundage, Journal of Ecclesiastical History ‘An impressively synthetic and highly readable survey of current scholarship on medieval sexuality that will be of considerable use in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.’ - Emma Campbell, Signs Sexuality in medieval Europe has become a vital scholarly field that is now recognized as central to the study of the Middle Ages. Using a wide collection of evidence from the late Antique period up until the fifteenth century, this new edition of the standard overview on the topic demonstrates that medieval culture developed sexual identities that were quite different from the identities we think of today, yet that were still in some ways ancestral to our own. Challenging the way the Middle Ages have been treated in general histories of sexuality, Ruth Mazo Karras shows how views at the time were conflicted and complicated; there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality any more than there is one modern attitude. The well-known lusty priest and the ‘repressed’ penitent have their roles to play, but set here in a wider context these figures take on fascinating new dimensions. Focusing on acceptable marital sexual activity as well as what was seen as transgressive, the chapters cover such topics as chastity, the role of the church, and non-reproductive activity. Combining an overview of research on the topic with original interpretations, now updated with the latest scholarship and additional material from medieval Christian Europe, Jewish medieval culture and the Islamic world, Sexuality in Medieval Europe is essential reading for all those who study medieval history and culture, or who have an interest in the way sexuality and sexual identity have been viewed in the past.
Medieval Futurity
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Author : Will Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-11-09
Medieval Futurity written by Will Rogers and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-09 with History categories.
This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences.