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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... Nights 50 C H A P T E R E 0 U R Crossing the Lines of Friendship: Jean Renart's Escoufle, Saracen Silk, and Intercultural Encounters 88 CHAPTER FIVE Crossing Social and Cultural Borders: Jean Renart's Escoufle and the Traditions of ...
... Nights especially) offered some medieval French writersa linguistic and thematiccorpus toimitate, contest, subvert, and at timeseven to censor.By confronting medieval French texts with theirArabic intertexts,I propose torecover meanings ...
... Nights especially) offered some medieval French writers a linguistic and thematic corpus to imitate, contest, subvert, and at times even to censor. By confronting medieval French texts with their Arabic intertexts, I propose to recover ...
... Nights, promulgated his theory of a “Sotadic Zone,” a geographic space that extends from the Mediterranean to Japan in which “the Vice [pederasty] is popular and endemic, held to be at the worst a mere peccadillo.”60 The association of ...
... Nights (also known as the Arabian Nights), is an— other important genre that is essential to any study of sexuality in the medieval Arabic world, especially as it relates to the lower levels of society who are never represented in other ...
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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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