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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784375303321

Titolo

Constructing medieval sexuality [[electronic resource] /] / Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken, and James A. Schultz, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8753-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Medieval cultures ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

LochrieKarma

McCrackenPeggy

SchultzJames A <1947-> (James Alfred)

Disciplina

306.7/094

Soggetti

Civilization, Medieval

Sex - Europe - History

Social history - Medieval, 500-1500

Europe Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Inspired by, and including some papers from, a conference held at the Newberry Library in Chicago, March 4-5, 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

8. Conversion and Medieval Sexual, Religious, and Racial Categories9. Mystical Acts, Queer Tendencies; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.