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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... words, but not in that ofwell—known 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 ...
... articulation of gender difference and sexual practices. Each of the French texts under investigation will be interpreted both horizontally and verticallyZ—horizontally because each word, every sentence and scene in Old X PREFACE.
... word, every sentence and scene in Old French writings holds a 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 ...
... words circulated as well, including trihades, dihetairistria, and leshiai. In Latin, words for female homosexuals were also in use, such as trihas, fiieatrix, and oirago;29 and in the medieval Arabic tradition, the category “lesbianism ...
... words and circum— locutions came to be used to describe what women allegedly did: mutual mas— turbation, pollution, fornication, sodomy, buggery, mutual corruption, coitus, copulation, mutual vice, the defilement or impurity of women by ...
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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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