Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic LiteraturesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1. mar. 2013 - 264 strani Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very heart of religious piety. |
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... first to be “astonished” at the limitations placed today around his history of sexuality: It is a matter of considerable irony that Foucault's influential distinction between the discursive construction of the sodomite and the ...
... first figurations of female couples (in clay, bronze, and stone) predate any other figuration of human couples including not only that of Adam and Eve, but also Homeric couples such as Achilles and Patrocles. The statues of these female ...
... First, for reasons of convenience and vari— ety: speaking each time of “same-sex desire among women,” “same-sex sexual practices,” “lesbian” in quotation marks, or even “lesbian-like,” while having the merit of being perhaps more ...
... first lesbian couple, the enduring love between Christian princess Hind Bint al—Nu'man (daughter of the last Lakhmid king of the Iraqi town of Hira in the late sixth century) and Hind Bint al Khuss al—Iyadiyyah from Yamama (located in ...
... first extant erotic treatise in Arabic dating from the late tenth century, speaks more loudly about men and male homosexuality. Nevertheless, the material on lesbianism in the Arabic Middle Ages, while undoubtedly a smaller proportion ...
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Crossing Linguistic Borders Etienne de Fougèress Livre des Manières and Arabic Erotic Treatises | 29 |
Crossing Sartorial Lines Female SameSex Marriage in Yde et Olive and The Story of Qamar alZaman and Princess Boudour from the One Thousand ... | 50 |
Crossing the Lines of Friendship Jean Renarts Escoufle Saracen Silk and Intercultural Encounters | 88 |
Crossing Social and Cultural Borders Jean Renarts Escoufle and the Traditions of Zarf jawaris and Qaynas in the Islamicate World | 121 |
Beyond Orientalist Presuppositions | 161 |
Notes | 167 |
Bibliography | 217 |
Index | 239 |
Acknowledgments | 251 |
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