William E. Burgwinkle

Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780521839686
• ISBN-10: 0521839688
• Artikelnr.: 21522832

Autorenporträt

William Burgwinkle is Lecturer in French and Occitan in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in the University of Cambridge and fellow at King's College. He is the author of Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus Razos and Troubadour Songs (1997) and the editor of Significant Others: Film and Literature, East and West (1993).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Locations: 1. Locating sodomy
2. Imagining sodomy
Part II. Confrontations: 3. Making Perceval: double-binding and sieges périlleux
4. Queering the Celts: men who don't marry in Marie de France
5. Writing the self: Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae.