Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic LiteraturesGiven 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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Cultural interaction continued through the founding of the Latin Kingdoms of the East during the Crusades (1099—1291) and well beyond the fall of Granada in 1492 and the Muslims' expulsion from Spain. If medieval French lesbians as a ...
... the establishment of the Islamic caliphate in Spain (al-Andalus); and Norman Sicily with Roger II's (1130-54) international center of learning and Frederick II's (1215-50) relaxed policies to— ward Muslims.45 Although until recently ...
850) and San Eulogio, medieval Christian discourses associated homosexuality with the Muslim enemy and the Prophet Muhammad with sodomitic practices.54 The image of the aggressive, predatory homosexual Muslim is perhaps best known ...
57 The association between Saracens, Muslims, and homosexuality was perceived to be especially threatening because of ... William Adam was vocal in calling attention to the contagious nature of Muslim homosexual desire and the danger it ...
... labia.63 In the ninth century, Arab and 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, ...
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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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Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer Omejen predogled - 2008 |
Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer Predogled ni na voljo - 2013 |