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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... specific meaning to its Western audience, and verti— cally because these same elements hint also at a literary corpus, a cultural tradition that precedes or is contemporary to the moment of French textual production. Old French ...
... specific (homo)sexual acts? What conclusions should be drawn from texts that insert a brief sexually alternative interlude only to end on a heteronormative note? Where is the line between intimate female friendships and female same-sex ...
... specific label to denote lesbian— ism was used until the sixteenth century has been taken to mean that me— dieval culture was silent on the question of lesbianism. And yet, as Sautman and Sheingorn remind us, it is “highly problematic ...
... specific term to de— note lesbianism, we are certainly permitted to read descriptions of female characters whose primary emotional attachments are to other women or those who engage in sexually intimate relations with other women as ...
... specific than Adrienne Rich's “lesbian continuum,” which includes all woman—identified experiences.34 It also possesses undeniable value for the study of literary lesbians in the Middle Ages, for, as will become evident in the following ...
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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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