Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction -- DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH -- KNIGHT OUT -- 1 Locating sodomy -- PRE-MEDIEVAL TRADITIONS -- THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL RESPONSES -- MONASTIC TRADITIONS -- PHYSIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY -- 2 Imagining sodomy -- PETER DAMIAN -- JOHN OF SALISBURY -- THE CURIOUS CASE OF RICHARD THE LIONHEART -- 3 Making Perceval: double-binding and sièges périlleux -- PERCEVAL: MAKING MEN -- WOMEN UNDER CHIVALRY -- VICTIMIZATION -- CHRISTIAN KNIGHTHOOD AND SODOMY -- 4 Queering the Celtic: Marie de France and the men who don't marry -- NARCISSUS AND GUIGEMAR -- TROUBLED DESIRES -- 5 Writing the self: Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae -- CLOTHING AND ART -- GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC -- GENDER AND REPRODUCTION -- Conclusion -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 LOCATING SODOMY -- 2 IMAGINING SODOMY -- 3 MAKING PERCEVAL: DOUBLE-BINDING AND SIÈGES PÉRILLEUX -- 4 QUEERING THE CELTIC: MARIE DE FRANCE AND THE MEN WHO DON'T MARRY -- 5 WRITING THE SELF: ALAIN DE LILLE'S DE PLANCTU NATURAE -- CONCLUSION -- Bibliography -- Index.