Between medieval men : male friendship and desire in early medieval English literature / David Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, David, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Male friendship in literature.

Desire in literature.

Eroticism in literature.

Men in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between Medieval Men argues for the importance of synoptically examining the whole range of same-sex relations in the Anglo-Saxon period, revisiting well-known texts and issues (as well as material often considered marginal) from a radically different perspective. The introductory chapters first lay out the premises underlying the book and its critical context, then emphasise the need to avoid modern cultural assumptions about both male-female and male-male relationships,and underline the paramount place of homosocial bonds in Old English literature. Part II then investigates the construction

Contents:

A fine romance? Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, and The Husband's Message

Germanic pederasty: the evidence of the classical ethnographers

Attitudes to same-sex activity in Anglo-Saxon England: earg, the Penitentials, and OE bdling

The changing face of Sodom, part I: the Latin tradition

The changing face of Sodom, part II: the vernacular tradition

Destructive desire: sexual themes and same-sex relations in Genesis A

Heroic desire? Male relations in Beowulf, The battle of Maldon, and The dream of the rood

Monastic sexuality and same-sex procreation in The phoenix

Saintly desire? Same-sex relations in lfric's Lives of saints

Unorthodox desire: the anonymous Life of Europhrosyne and the Colloquies of lfric Bata

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-226) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-967117-6

1-282-10412-8

9786612104121

0-19-156788-4

OCLC:

421037441