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Homoeroticism and Chivalry : Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century /

Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zeikowitz, Richard E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Series:New Middle Ages.
Subjects:
History.
Europe > History.
Europe > History > 476-1492.
World history.
Classical literature.
Sociology.
Sex (Psychology)
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
History
Sociology
Gender Identity
Histoire.
Europe > Histoire.
Histoire universelle.
Littérature ancienne.
Sociologie.
Sexualité (Psychologie)
Expression de l'identité de genre.
Identité de genre.
Europe > Histoire > 476-1492.
history (discipline)
sociology.
sex role.
Classical literature
Gender expression
Gender identity
World history
Europe
476-1492
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Articulating Premodern Male Homoeroticism
  • Part I: Affirmations of Male Same-Sex Desire
  • Promoting Homosocial Intimacy
  • 2. Chivalric Bonds and the Ideals of Friendship
  • 3. Competing Desires
  • 4. Homoerotic Identifications
  • 5. Male-Male Gazing
  • Part II: Denigrations of Male Same-Sex Desire
  • Sodomy as a Discursive Weapon
  • 6. Sodomy, Politics, and Male-Male Desire
  • 7. Dramatized Sodomitical Discourse: The Case of Troilus and Pandarus
  • Queer Lessons from the Fourteenth Century.