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. to writing seems to have enjoyed especial appeal among jurists in the following centuries. Indeed, one hundred years later, in his gloss of Spain's law code, the ...
... writings on sexuality will serve as a crucial basis for reading eroticism in a wide range of Old French texts. By juxtaposing medieval Arabic texts and medieval French works, Cross' ing Borders will shed light on the literary existence ...
... writings. My reading will thus scrutinize anew the vocabulary of sexual desire and sexual practice in Old French texts in order to better understand the textual strategies at play in the construction of female homoeroticism. Lesbianism ...
... writings. We will see indeed that diverse as the liter— ary medieval French lesbians may be, they all display primary emotional attachments; many live in female quarters, resist marriage, cross-dress, and at times even prostitute ...
... writings). Medieval literary scholars have come to recognize the fact that if theological discourses had silenced female eroticism, literature offered a privileged space for the expression of female same—sex sexuality. Developments in ...
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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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