Queer Iberia – Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance: Series Q

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Gregory S. Hutcheson and Josiah Blackmore 1
I. Queering Iberia
Saint Pelagius, Ephebe and Martyr / Mark D. Jordan 23
"Affined to love the Moor": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer / Benjamin Liu 48
Queer Representation in the Arçipreste de Talavera, or, The Maldezir de mugeres Is a Drag / Catherine Brown 73
II. Iberian Masculinities
"Tanquam effeminatum": Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian Crusade / Sara Lipton 107
The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de buen amor / Louise O. Vasvári 130
Male Bonding as Cultural Construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel: Homosocial Friendship in Medieval Iberia / Roberto J. González-Casanovas 157
III. Sources of Sodom
The Poets of Sodom / Josiah Blackmore 195
Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna / Gregory S. Hutcheson 222
Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual "Good Love" / Daniel Eisenberg 250
IV. Normativity and Nationhood
Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual Other in Francesc Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les dones / Michael Soloman 277
"!A tierra, puto!": Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy / Barbara Weissberger 291
"Tened por espejo su fin": Mapping Gender and Sex in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain / Linde M. Brocato 325
V. The Body and the State
Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina / E. Michael Gerli 369
From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gender the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry 394
Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 420
Index 457
Contributors 475

"In this provocative volume, an impressive collection of scholars, undaunted by a tradition of more solemn readings, train the powerful double lens of cultural and sexual difference on the medieval and early modern Iberian world, which turns out to be much more akin to our own than we might have suspected."--Mary Gaylord, Harvard University