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Sodomy, masculinity, and law in medieval literature : = France and England, 1050-1230 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sodomy, masculinity, and law in medieval literature :/ William E. Burgwinkle.
Reminder of title:	France and England, 1050-1230 /
remainder title:	Sodomy, Masculinity & Law in Medieval Literature
Author:	Burgwinkle, William E.,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Homosexuality in literature. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484735
ISBN:	9780511484735 (ebook)

Sodomy, masculinity, and law in medieval literature : = France and England, 1050-1230 /
Burgwinkle, William E.,1951-

Sodomy, masculinity, and law in medieval literature :France and England, 1050-1230 /Sodomy, Masculinity & Law in Medieval LiteratureWilliam E. Burgwinkle. - 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;51. - Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;42..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Locating sodomy --Introduction --

William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Burgwinkle illustrates how 'sodomy' becomes a problematic feature of narratives of romance and knighthood. Most texts of the period denounce sodomy and use accusations of sodomitical practice as a way of maintaining a sacrificial climate in which masculine identity is set in opposition to the stigmatised other, for example the foreign, the feminine, and the heretical. What emerges from these readings, however, is that even the most homophobic, masculinist and normative texts of the period demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to separate the sodomitical from the orthodox. These blurred boundaries allow readers to glimpse alternative, even homoerotic, readings.

ISBN: 9780511484735 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

648589
Homosexuality in literature.

LC Class. No.: PN682.H65 / B87 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9384

Sodomy, masculinity, and law in medieval literature : = France and England, 1050-1230 /
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