Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART: I -- 1. Queering Ovidian Myth: Bestiality and Desire in Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea -- 2. Sodomy's Mark: Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, and the Medieval Theory of Authorship -- 3. The Pose of the Queer: Dante's Gaze, Brunetto Latini's Body -- Response: Presidential Improprieties and Medieval Categories: The Absurdity of Heterosexuality -- PART: II -- 4. The Sodomitic Moor: Queerness in the Narrative of Reconquista -- 5. Chaste Subjects: Gender, Heroism, and Desire in the Grail Quest -- 6. The King's Boyfriend: Froissart's Political Theater of 1326 -- Response: "Just Like a Woman": Queer History, Womanizing the Body, and the Boys in Arnaud's Band -- PART: III -- 7. Translating the Foreskin -- 8. Shameful Pleasures: Up Close and Dirty with Chaucer, Flesh, and the Word -- 9. Ecce Homo -- 10. Medieval/Postmodern: HIV/AIDS and the Temporality of Crisis -- Response: Return of the Repressed: The Sequel -- Contributors -- Index of Proper Names and Titles of Anonymous Works -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.