Same–sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Autor Tom Linkinenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 apr 2015
This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval condemnations of same-sex intimacy and desire and then shows how same-sex sexuality reflected—and was inflected by—gender hierarchies, approaches to crime, and the conspicuous silence on the matter in the legal systems of the period.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789089646293
ISBN-10: 9089646299
Pagini: 334
Ilustrații: 7 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Seria Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
ISBN-10: 9089646299
Pagini: 334
Ilustrații: 7 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Amsterdam University Press
Seria Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Notă biografică
Tom Linkinen is a cultural historian in the Department of Culture, History and Arts Studies at the University of Turku in Finland.
Cuprins
Introduction
1. In search of same-sex sexuality and later medieval English
culture
2. Primary sources: Discussing the versatile past
3. Secondary sources: Discussing medieval sexuality
I - Framing condemnations: Sodomy, sin against nature, and crime
1. Judgement of sodomy
2. Sin against nature and fallen f lesh
3. Disturbing gender boundaries
4. A crime lacking law
II - Silencing the unmentionable vice
1. Silence around same-sex sexuality
2. Repeated silencing as shared knowledge
III - Stigmatising with same-sex sexuality
1. The two kings and their rumoured lovers
2. Sodomitical religious opponents
3. Accumulating accusations
IV - Sharing disgust and fear
1. “Stinking deed” and “spiteful fij ilth”
2. Fear of sin against nature in one’s nature
3. Sharing nightmares of sin against nature
4. Placing same-sex sexuality out of this world
V - Sharing laughter
1. Laughing at same-sex sexuality
2. Chaucer’s Pardoner, “geldyng or a mare” and more
VI - Framing possibilities: Silences, friendships, deepest love
1. Possibilities behind silence and confusion
2. Closest friends
3. Deepest love
Conclusions
1. From stinking deeds to deepest love
2. Closing with queer possibilities
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Index
1. In search of same-sex sexuality and later medieval English
culture
2. Primary sources: Discussing the versatile past
3. Secondary sources: Discussing medieval sexuality
I - Framing condemnations: Sodomy, sin against nature, and crime
1. Judgement of sodomy
2. Sin against nature and fallen f lesh
3. Disturbing gender boundaries
4. A crime lacking law
II - Silencing the unmentionable vice
1. Silence around same-sex sexuality
2. Repeated silencing as shared knowledge
III - Stigmatising with same-sex sexuality
1. The two kings and their rumoured lovers
2. Sodomitical religious opponents
3. Accumulating accusations
IV - Sharing disgust and fear
1. “Stinking deed” and “spiteful fij ilth”
2. Fear of sin against nature in one’s nature
3. Sharing nightmares of sin against nature
4. Placing same-sex sexuality out of this world
V - Sharing laughter
1. Laughing at same-sex sexuality
2. Chaucer’s Pardoner, “geldyng or a mare” and more
VI - Framing possibilities: Silences, friendships, deepest love
1. Possibilities behind silence and confusion
2. Closest friends
3. Deepest love
Conclusions
1. From stinking deeds to deepest love
2. Closing with queer possibilities
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Index
Recenzii
“A rigorous yet warm-hearted book that provides an excellent systematic guide to a variety of possible conceptualizations of, and reactions to, same-sex sexual desire, sexual activity, and love. . . . In addition to a wide-ranging engagement with other scholars, the book is particularly valuable as a collation of primary sources relevant to this area of study. It should be highly recommended for teaching purposes and for those new to the field, and even experienced sexual historians are likely to find at least one unfamiliar reference or fresh interpretation within these pages.”