Constructing Medieval Sexuality
Title | Constructing Medieval Sexuality PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Civilization, Medieval |
ISBN | 9781452903194 |
Queering the Middle Ages
Title | Queering the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Glenn Burger |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 350 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780816634040 |
The essays in this volume present new work that, in one way or another, "queers" stabilized conceptions of the Middle Ages, allowing us to see the period and its systems of sexuality in radically different, off-center, and revealing ways. While not denying the force of gender and sexual norms, the authors consider how historical work has written out or over what might have been non-normative in medieval sex and culture, and they work to restore a sense of such instabilities. At the same time, they ask how this pursuit might allow us not only to re-envision medieval studies but also to rethink how we study culture from our current set of vantage points within postmodernity. The authors focus on particular medieval moments: Christine de Pizan's representation of female sexuality; chastity in the Grail romances; the illustration of "the sodomite" in manuscript commentaries on Dante's Commedia; the complex ways that sexuality inflected English national politics at the time of Edward II's deposition; the construction of the sodomitic Moor by Reconquista Spain. Throughout, their work seeks to disturb a logic that sees the past as significant only insofar as it may make sense for and of a stabilized present.
Heterosyncrasies
Title | Heterosyncrasies PDF eBook |
Author | Karma Lochrie |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816645985 |
Reveals the lack of historical basis for heterosexuality as the norm.
Handbook of Medieval Sexuality
Title | Handbook of Medieval Sexuality PDF eBook |
Author | Vern L. Bullough |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1136512241 |
Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the institutions that they created in the middle ages. The absorbing subject of sexuality in the Middle Ages is examined in 19 original articles written specifically for this "Handbook" by the major authorities in their scholarly specialties. The study of medieval sexuality poses problems for the researcher: indices in standard sources rarely refer to sexual topics, and standard secondary sources often ignore the material or say little about it. Yet a vast amount of research is available, and the information is accessible to the student who knows where to look and what to look for. This volume is a valuable guide to the material and an indicator of what subjects are likely to yield fresh scholarly rewards.
Obscene Pedagogies
Title | Obscene Pedagogies PDF eBook |
Author | Carissa M. Harris |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 223 |
Release | 2018-12-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501730428 |
In Obscene Pedagogies, Carissa M. Harris investigates the relationship between obscenity, gender, and pedagogy in Middle English and Middle Scots literary texts from 1300 to 1580 to show how sexually explicit and defiantly vulgar speech taught readers and listeners about sexual behavior and consent. Through innovative close readings of literary texts including erotic lyrics, single-woman's songs, debate poems between men and women, Scottish insult poetry battles, and The Canterbury Tales, Harris demonstrates how through its transgressive charge and galvanizing shock value, obscenity taught audiences about gender, sex, pleasure, and power in ways both positive and harmful. Harris's own voice, proudly witty and sharply polemical, inspires the reader to address these medieval texts with an eye on contemporary issues of gender, violence, and misogyny.
Heterosyncrasies
Title | Heterosyncrasies PDF eBook |
Author | Karma Lochrie |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 178 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780816645992 |
Reveals the lack of historical basis for heterosexuality as the norm.
Medieval Sexuality
Title | Medieval Sexuality PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1135866341 |