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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... medieval (male) legal authorities goes hand in hand with the prevailing negative attitudes toward women in the Middle Ages, the contradictory notions regarding their sexual— ity in general, including heterosexuality. After all, “natural ...
... medieval society lesbians are the most marginalized and least visible.”15 Almost ten years after the publication of this landmark study, scholarship on the medieval lesbian and on same-sex desire among women in the Middle Ages (in stark ...
... medieval French lesbian, as we will see, is an example of such a mixed identity, a product of the “contact Zone” that took place between the French and the Arabs during the Middle Ages. 17 The scarcity of scholarly investigations into ...
... medieval lesbian. The study of female homosexuality in the Middle Ages has been further hampered by anachronistic views of what constitutes lesbianism. Given the definitional fluidity of this category today (Who exactly counts as a ...
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures Sahar Amer. Critics continue to struggle over what to call expressions of same—sex desire in the Middle Ages. They have been especially reticent to apply the label “lesbianism ...
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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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