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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... marriage or, indeed, just did not marry, whatever the reason, their singleness can be seen as lesbian-like. If women dressed as men, whether in response to saintly voices, in order to study, in pursuit of certain careers, or just to ...
... married Constance, daughter of Bohemond II-—is known to have been a powerful commercial center of international trade and boasted important crosscultural fimdu/es47 Historians have also shown the decisive role that Arabic medicine ...
... marriage or concubinage) is viewed as both licit and desirable. The Qur'an itself describes Paradise in sexual terms and pro— claims the primacy of physical sensual pleasures.78 It is worth noting that the principal, most vehemently ...
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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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