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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... Story ofQamar al—Zaman and Princess Boudour from the One Thousand and One 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 ...
... story Crossing Borders will begin to tell)——she bids us to broaden our investigation into medieval sources and to include “women whose lives might have particularly offered opportunities for same-sex love; women who resisted norms of ...
... stories told, poetry re— cited, and songs sung all the while engaging in whatever commercial or po— litical transactions they had come to accomplish. Upon their return, along with the material goods that they hauled in their carts, next ...
... story of the first lesbian couple, the enduring love between Christian princess Hind Bint al—Nu'man (daughter of the last Lakhmid king of the Iraqi town of Hira in the late sixth century) and Hind Bint al Khuss al—Iyadiyyah from Yamama ...
... stories such as these are significant not only for the history of lesbianism, but also because they have no equivalent in the medieval French (or Western) literary tradition. Arab lesbians were both named and visible in Classical Arabic ...
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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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