Constructing Medieval Sexuality
This collection brings together essays from various disciplinary perspectives to consider how the Middle Ages defined, regulated, and represented sexual practices and desires. Considering sexuality in relation to gender, the body, and identity, the essays explore medieval sexuality as a historical construction produced by and embedded in the cultures and institutions of the period. 17 photos. 232 pp.
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This collection brings together essays from various disciplinary perspectives to consider how the Middle Ages defined, regulated, and represented sexual practices and desires. Considering sexuality in relation to gender, the body, and identity, the essays explore medieval sexuality as a historical construction produced by and embedded in the cultures and institutions of the period. 17 photos. 232 pp.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray: Nocturnal Emissions and the Sexuality of the Clergy12Homosexuality, Luxuria, and Textual Abuse243Sciences/Silences: The Natures and Languages of "Sodomy" in Peter of Abano's Problemata Commentary404Manuscript Illumination and the Art of Copulation585Bodies That Don't Matter: Heterosexuality before Heterosexuality in Gottfried's Tristan916Refashioning Courtly Love: Lancelot as Ladies' Man or Lady/Man?1117The Love of Thy Neighbor1358Conversion and Medieval Sexual, Religious, and Racial Categories1589Mystical Acts, Queer Tendencies180Contributors201Index203
