ISBN:
9780816628292
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0816628297
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0816628289
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 205 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Medieval cultures v. 11
Parallel Title:
Print version Constructing Medieval Sexuality
DDC:
306.7/094
Keywords:
Social history Medieval, 500-1500
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Sex History
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Civilization, Medieval
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Civilization, Medieval
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Europe ; Social life and customs
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Sex ; Europe ; History
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Social history ; Medieval, 500-1500
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Electronic books
;
Europe Social life and customs
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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
8. Conversion and Medieval Sexual, Religious, and Racial Categories9. Mystical Acts, Queer Tendencies; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Inspired by, and including some papers from, a conference held at the Newberry Library in Chicago, March 4-5, 1994
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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