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

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, MN, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.7/094
• Soggetto topico: Civilization, Medieval; Sex - Europe - History; Social history - Medieval, 500-1500
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Social life and customs
• Altri autori: LochrieKarma McCrackenPeggy SchultzJames A <1947-> (James Alfred)
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Constructing medieval sexuality
• ISBN: 0-8166-8753-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808169203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Medieval cultures ; ; v. 11.