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Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature

France and England, 1050–1230
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Description

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.

Author Biography:

William Burgwinkle is Lecturer in French and Occitan in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in the University of Cambridge and fellow at King's College. He is the author of Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus Razos and Troubadour Songs (1997) and the editor of Significant Others: Film and Literature, East and West (1993).
Release date Australia
July 8th, 2004
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Pages
314
Dimensions
152x229x22
ISBN-13
9780521839686
Product ID
3949692

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