Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts / edited by J. Brown, M. Segol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, J., Editor.

Segol, M., Editor.

Series:

The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--History--476-1492.

Europe.

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Literature, Medieval.

Sex.

History of Medieval Europe.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Medieval Literature.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

History of Medieval Europe.

Literary Theory.

Cultural Theory.

Medieval Literature.

Literature.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2013.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Narrating Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Texts; 1. The Whore as Imago Dei: Being and Abjection in in Hrotsvit's Rewriting of Thais; 2. Alan of Lille on the Little Bits that Make a Difference; 3. Queer Hermeneutics and Redemption in the Cosmology of the Zohar; 4. Born Under the Sign of Venus: Phantasmatic Desire and the Woman-Who-Never-Was in the Libro De Buen Amor; 5. The Double Bind of Chivalric Sexuality in the Late-Medieval English Romance

6. Divine Orgasm and Self-Blazoning: The Fragmented Body of the Female Medieval Visionary7. Cosmology, Sexuality, and Music in Robert Henryson's "Orpheus and Eurydice"; 8. Cresseid's Dignity: Cosmology and Sexuality in Henryson's "Testament"; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781137037411

1137037415

OCLC:

830163599