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Constructing Medieval Sexuality.
Title:
Constructing Medieval Sexuality.
Author:
Lochrie, Karma.
ISBN:
9780816687534
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (225 pages)
Series:
Medieval Cultures
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray: Nocturnal Emissions and the Sexuality of the Clergy -- 2. Homosexuality, Luxuria, and Textual Abuse -- 3. Sciences/Silences: The Natures and Languages of "Sodomy" in Peter of Abano's Problemata Commentary -- 4. Manuscript Illumination and the Art of Copulation -- 5. Bodies That Don't Matter: Heterosexuality before Heterosexuality in Gottfried's Tristan -- 6. Refashioning Courtly Love: Lancelot as Ladies' Man or Lady/Man? -- 7. The Love of Thy Neighbor -- 8. Conversion and Medieval Sexual, Religious, and Racial Categories -- 9. Mystical Acts, Queer Tendencies -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
This collection is the first to be devoted entirely to medieval sexuality informed by current theories of sexuality and gender. It brings together essays from various disciplinary perspectives to consider how the Middle Ages defined, regulated, and represented sexual practices and desires.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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