Premodern sexualities /

Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating pre-modern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourse...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye, 1953- (Editor), Freccero, Carla, 1956- (Editor), Lavezzo, Kathy (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 1996.
Subjects:	Sex > History > To 1500. Sex customs > History > To 1500. Homosexuality in literature. Sex in literature. Homosexuality > History > To 1500. Sexual Behavior > history Sexuality > history Sex > history. Homosexuality Homosexualité dans la littérature. Sexualité dans la littérature. Homosexualité. homosexuality. Homosexuality in literature Sex Sex customs Sex in literature To 1500 History

Table of Contents:

The history that will be / Jonathan Goldberg
In search of the black stud / José Piedra
The queen's too [sic] bawdies : El burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of historicity / María Carrión
Henry's desires / Richard Corum
"Ut cum muliere" : a male transvestite prostitute in fourteenth century London / Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd
The hermaphrodite and the orders of nature : sexual ambiguity in early modern France / Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park
Don't ask, don't tell : murderous plots and medieval secrets / Karma Lochrie
Straight minds/"queer" wishes in old French hagiography : La vie de Sainte Euphrosine / Simon Gaunt
Sobs and sighs between women : the homoerotics of compassion in The book of Margery Kempe / Kathy Lavezzo
Virile style / Patricia Parker
Explicit ink / Elizabeth Pittenger
Sodomy and resurrection : the homoerotic subject of the Divine comedy / Bruce Holsinger.