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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Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. period.35 While the literary depiction of such characters in Old French literature is not labeled lesbian, it can certainly be considered “lesbian-like.” Throughout ...
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. unpredictability and variety of expressions ... literature, critics have thus succeeded in detecting fluid gender positions that challenge the conventional binary ...
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. medieval lesbian expression and those who ... literature, while adding a new dimension: a cross-cultural reading of Old French texts. In the following chapters, I ...
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. teriul goocls from the East to the West is amply documented, the diffusion of Arabic cultural and literary traditions to Western Europe remains a highly ...
... literature, like science, bears traces of its as— sociations with its Eastern neighbors. As it builds upon the ... Arabic erotic tradition has played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages.
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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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