Sodomy Masculinity And Law In Medieval Literature
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Sodomy Masculinity And Law In Medieval Literature
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Author : William E. Burgwinkle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-08
Sodomy Masculinity And Law In Medieval Literature written by William E. Burgwinkle 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 2004-07-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Burgwinkle illustrates how 'sodomy' becomes a problematic feature of narratives of romance and knighthood. Most texts of the period denounce sodomy and use accusations of sodomitical practice as a way of maintaining a sacrificial climate in which masculine identity is set in opposition to the stigmatised other, for example the foreign, the feminine, and the heretical. What emerges from these readings, however, is that even the most homophobic, masculinist and normative texts of the period demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to separate the sodomitical from the orthodox. These blurred boundaries allow readers to glimpse alternative, even homoerotic, readings.
Sodomy Masculinity And Law In Medieval Literature
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Author : William E. Burgwinkle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Sodomy Masculinity And Law In Medieval Literature written by William E. Burgwinkle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Homosexuality categories.
This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Though mosts texts of the period denounce sodomy, this book shows how some also endorse it.
Treason And Masculinity In Medieval England
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Author : E. Amanda McVitty
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
Treason And Masculinity In Medieval England written by E. Amanda McVitty and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.
Piers Plowman And The Medieval Discourse Of Desire
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Author : Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Nicolette Zeeman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-04-20
Piers Plowman And The Medieval Discourse Of Desire written by Fellow of King's College Cambridge and Newton Trust Lecturer in English Nicolette Zeeman 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 2006-04-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This ambitious study links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Zeeman's radical approach opens up a completely fresh reading of Piers Plowman and sheds light on the history of medieval psychology.
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.
Sexuality In Medieval Europe
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Author : Ruth Mazo Karras
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-04-03
Sexuality In Medieval Europe written by Ruth Mazo Karras and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-03 with History categories.
Now in its fourth edition, Sexuality in Medieval Europe provides a lively account of a society whose attitudes toward sexuality both were ancestral to, and differed from, contemporary ones. The volume is structured not by types of sexual interactions or deviance, but to reflect the difference in gendered experiences when sex is seen as an act one person does to another. Sexual activity, within and outside of marriage, as well as sexual inactivity, had different meanings based on gender, social status, religious affiliation, and more. This book considers these iterations of medieval sexuality in its effort to show there was no single medieval attitude towards sexuality. With an emphasis on Christian Western Europe over the entire course of the Middle Ages, it also includes comparative material on neighboring cultures at the time. Alongside being reworked for further clarity and readability, the fourth edition offers substantial new material on trans scholarship and methodological attempts to recoup a trans past; changes in the treatment of sex work and its terminology; and new material on Byzantine and Muslim culture. Sexuality in Medieval Europe is an essential resource for all those who study medieval history, medieval culture, and the history of sexuality in Europe.
Seeing Sodomy In The Middle Ages
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Author : Robert Mills
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Seeing Sodomy In The Middle Ages written by Robert Mills and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Social Science categories.
During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled “sodomitical” or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the “unmentionable vice” or the “sin against nature.” How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when you see one? In Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages, Robert Mills explores the relationship between sodomy and motifs of vision and visibility in medieval culture, on the one hand, and those categories we today call gender and sexuality, on the other. Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, Mills demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period—and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took. Among the topics that Mills covers are depictions of the practices of sodomites in illuminated Bibles; motifs of gender transformation and sex change as envisioned by medieval artists and commentators on Ovid; sexual relations in religious houses and other enclosed spaces; and the applicability of modern categories such as “transgender,” “butch” and “femme,” or “sexual orientation” to medieval culture. Taking in a multitude of images, texts, and methodologies, this book will be of interest to all scholars, regardless of discipline, who engage with gender and sexuality in their work.
The Manly Priest
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Author : Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-10-02
The Manly Priest written by Jennifer D. Thibodeaux and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-02 with History categories.
During the High Middle Ages, members of the Anglo-Norman clergy not only routinely took wives but also often prepared their own sons for ecclesiastical careers. As the Anglo-Norman Church began to impose clerical celibacy on the priesthood, reform needed to be carefully negotiated, as it relied on the acceptance of a new definition of masculinity for religious men, one not dependent on conventional male roles in society. The Manly Priest tells the story of the imposition of clerical celibacy in a specific time and place and the resulting social tension and conflict. No longer able to tie manliness to marriage and procreation, priests were instructed to embrace virile chastity, to become manly celibates who continually warred with the desires of the body. Reformers passed legislation to eradicate clerical marriages and prevent clerical sons from inheriting their fathers' benefices. In response, some married clerics authored tracts to uphold their customs of marriage and defend the right of a priest's son to assume clerical office. This resistance eventually waned, as clerical celibacy became the standard for the priesthood. By the thirteenth century, ecclesiastical reformers had further tightened the standard of priestly masculinity by barring other typically masculine behaviors and comportment: gambling, tavern-frequenting, scurrilous speech, and brawling. Charting the progression of the new model of religious masculinity for the priesthood, Jennifer Thibodeaux illustrates this radical alteration and concludes not only that clerical celibacy was a hotly contested movement in high medieval England and Normandy, but that this movement created a new model of manliness for the medieval clergy.
Gender And Genre In Medieval French Literature
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Author : Simon Gaunt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-05-11
Gender And Genre In Medieval French Literature written by Simon Gaunt 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 1995-05-11 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.
The Cambridge History Of French Literature
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Author : William Burgwinkle
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-24
The Cambridge History Of French Literature written by William Burgwinkle 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 2011-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.