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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... century Encyclopedia of Pleasure, alJurjani's eleventhcentury Anthology ofMetonymic Devices Used by theLiterati and Allusionsin Eloquent Speech,and alTifashi's thirteenthcentury The Delightof Hearts inparticular), aswellasin ...
... century Encyclopedia of Pleasure, al-Jurjani's eleventh-century Anthology ofMetonyrnie Der/ices Used by the Literati and Allusions in E/oquent Speech, and al-Tifashi's thirteenth-century The Delight of Hearts in particular), as well as ...
... centuries later, medieval manuals of penance address the question of how to deal with such “vile affections.n5 Jean Gerson, the fifteenth—century rector of the University of Paris, describes this lustful act as one in which “women have ...
... centuries. Indeed, one hundred years later, in his gloss of Spain's law code, the Siete Partidas (1256), Gregory Lopez alludes to the sin “against nature” as “the silent sin” (peecaturn mutant).5 Similarly, a sixteenth—century jurist ...
... century Italian nun, Judith Brown observed: “In light of the knowledge that Europeans had about the possibility of lesbian sexuality, their neglect of the subject in law, theology, and literature suggests an almost active willingness to ...
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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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