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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... terms such as Abbasid or Iraq, for instance. It is my hope that this simplified system of Arabic transliteration will ease the reading and facilitate border crossings be— tween French and Arabic. I have kept citations in the original ...
... term for female homosexuality that Plato uses here is hetai'ristriai, but other words circulated as well, including ... term sahq, as we will see in detail below. Finally, the term “lesbian” (leshiai, plural of leshian)—used to mean same ...
... term seems to have disappeared (it has perhaps been purposefully erased); it did not come into use in French until the sixteenth century and then seemingly only once.31 Even though medieval French narrators did not use a specific term ...
... term “lesbian” for several reasons. First, for reasons of convenience and vari— ety: speaking each time of “same-sex desire among women,” “same-sex sexual practices,” “lesbian” in quotation marks, or even “lesbian-like,” while having ...
... terms of political and religious conflict and heralded as a paradigmatic illustration of a “clash of civilizations,”46 they are now recognized as a privileged moment of cultural and intellectual interaction as well as of material ex ...
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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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