Same-sex sexuality in later Medieval English culture /

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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 condem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Linkinen, Tom
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2015.
Colección:Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies.
Temas:
1300-1499
Homosexuality > History.
Homosexuality > England > History > 14th century.
Homosexuality > England > 15th century.
Homosexualité > Histoire.
Homosexualité > Angleterre > Histoire > 14e siècle.
Homosexualité > Angleterre > 15e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Homosexuality.
England.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • 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 flesh
  • 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 filth"
  • 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
  • List of figures
  • Figure 1: Punishment for sodomy carved in stone, from the left, Lincoln Cathedral, a reconstruction of a twelfth-century stone frieze
  • Figure 2: Punishment for sodomy carved in stone, from the right, Lincoln Cathedral, a reconstruction of a twelfth-century stone frieze
  • Figure 3: Tutivillus the devil and two women gossiping in a church, Beverley Minster, Beverley, North Yorkshire, fourteenth century.
  • Figure 4: A joined tombstone of Sir John Clanvowe and Sir William Neville, Archaeological Museum of Istanbul
  • Figure 5: "A tomb slab of an English couple," Archaeological Museum of Istanbul
  • Figure 6: A closer look at two helmets face-to-face above, and two coats of arms with shared heraldry below, Archaeological Museum of Istanbul.

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