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Sodomy, masculinity, and law in medieval literature : France and England, 1050-1230 / / William E. Burgwinkle



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Autore: Burgwinkle William E. <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sodomy, masculinity, and law in medieval literature : France and England, 1050-1230 / / William E. Burgwinkle Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 820.9384
Soggetto topico: Homosexuality in literature
Sodomy in literature
Masculinity in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism
Homosexuality - Europe - History
Sodomy - Europe - History
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-291) and index.
Nota di contenuto: ; Introduction -- ; Part. I. Locating sodomy -- Locating sodomy -- Imagining sodomy -- ; Part. II. Confronting sodomy -- Making Perceval: double-binding and siéges périlleux -- Queering the Celts: Marie de France and the men who don't marry -- Writing the self: Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae -- ; Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Burgwinkle illustrates how 'sodomy' becomes a problematic feature of narratives of romance and knighthood. Most texts of the period denounce sodomy and use accusations of sodomitical practice as a way of maintaining a sacrificial climate in which masculine identity is set in opposition to the stigmatised other, for example the foreign, the feminine, and the heretical. What emerges from these readings, however, is that even the most homophobic, masculinist and normative texts of the period demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to separate the sodomitical from the orthodox. These blurred boundaries allow readers to glimpse alternative, even homoerotic, readings.
Titolo autorizzato: Sodomy, masculinity, and law in medieval literature  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-15113-9
1-280-54091-5
0-511-21501-0
0-511-21680-7
0-511-21143-0
0-511-31550-3
0-511-48473-9
0-511-21320-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824262903321
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Serie: Cambridge studies in medieval literature.