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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... homosexuality; they have provided a much needed historical and comparative vantage point from which to view a broader range of alternative sexual practices. Building upon these groundbreaking studies, Crossing Borders investigates the ...
... homosexuality was nothing but a “human distortion of divine order.” Ironically, the invention of the category “sodomy” in the middle of the twelfth century only served to exclude female homosexuality from public dis— course and thus to ...
... homosexuality over female alternative sexual practices.13 The scholarly neglect of medieval lesbianism has been so profound that in her biography of a sixteenth-century Italian nun, Judith Brown observed: “In light of the knowledge that ...
... homosexuality is partly attributed to some postmodern (and unfortunately hasty) readings of Foucault's unfinished History of Sexuality. Because Foucault focused on homosexuality as a modern (Western) phenomenon, a result of nineteenth ...
... homosexuality in the Middle Ages has been further hampered by anachronistic views of what constitutes lesbianism. Given the definitional fluidity of this category today (Who exactly counts as a lesbian?), critics have been at a loss as ...
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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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