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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... Muslims' expulsion from Spain. If medieval French lesbians as a category of analysis or as evidence of a certain textual (and perhaps even social) reality have often been occulted or thought to be nonexistent, it is undoubtedly because ...
... Muslims.45 Although until recently the Crusades had been viewed prima— rily in terms of political and religious conflict and heralded as a paradigmatic illustration of a “clash of civilizations,”46 they are now recognized as a ...
... Muslim enemy and the Prophet Muhammad with sodomitic practices.54 The image of the aggressive, predatory homosexual Muslim is perhaps best known through Hrostvit of Gandersheim's tenth—century Latin play depicting the adolescent ...
... Muslims, and homosexuality was perceived to be especially threatening because of the seductive power that ... Muslim homosexual desire and the danger it posed to Chris— tians who entertained commercial relations with them.58 ...
... Muslim philosopher al-Kindi echoes Galen's observation of labial itching and recommends the same treatment, namely, rubbing.64 Other Arab physicians thought of lesbianism as an inborn state, caused by the mother's consumption of certain ...
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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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