Same sex love and desire among women in the Middle Ages / edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canadé Sautman, Francesca.

Sheingorn, Pamela.

Series:

New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))

The new Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--History.

Lesbians.

Lesbianism in literature.

Literature, Medieval.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

The essays treat same-sex desire and life choices among medieval women by covering a diverse cultural domain and a wider range of fields, disciplines, and approaches than ever attempted in this context before.

Contents:

Introduction: charting the field / Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn

Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis of Stade: the discourse of desire / Susan Schibanoff

Elegiac desire and female community in Baudonivia's Life of Saint Radegund / Lisa Weston

The erased lesbian: sodomy and the legal tradition in medieval Europe / Edith Benkov

Tribadism/lesbianism and the sexualized body in medieval Arabo-Islamic narratives / Fedwa Malti-Douglas

Jousting without a lance: the condemnation of female homoeroticism in the Livre des manières / Robert L.A. Clark

Lesbian sex and the military: from the medieval Arabic tradition to French literature / Sahar Amer

What can they possibly do together? Queer epic performances in Tristan de Nanteuil / Francesca Canadé Sautman

"At all times near": love between women in two medieval Indian devotional texts / Ruth Vanita

Leonor López de Córdoba and the configuration of female-female desire / Gregory S. Hutcheson

"Laudomia Forteguerri loves Margaret of Austria" / Konrad Eisenbichler

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312210566

OCLC:

46809097