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 ... culture was silent on the question of lesbianism. And yet, as Sautman and ... tradition, the category “lesbianism” existed as is evident in the use of the ...
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer ... tradition. As a matter of fact, my thesis in Crossing Borders is that Old ... Arab Islamicate world and Western Europe,44 beginning with the Arab invasion of ...
... Arabic rnuwusshuhut and zujul traditions;50 and the fable tradition and the role that Kulilu wu Dirnnu has played on Marie de France's Esope.51 Yet, despite the scholarly resistance to the role that less tangible Arabic cultural ...
... the medieval Arabic erotic tradition has played a determining role in French literary writings on gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. Medieval Western Polemics of Homosexuality and Islam Focusing on cross—cultural (Franco—Arabic) ...
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. words ... Arabic terms for “lesbianism,” stzhq, sihuq, musuhuqut ul—nisu', and sihuqu ... tradition, point to rubbing as an essential characteristic of the practice ...
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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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