This edited volume contains nine articles exploring medieval sexuality and its relation to cosmological and social ordering. All of our authors analyze literary texts, both religious and secular, using a variety of critical methodologies. These...
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This edited volume contains nine articles exploring medieval sexuality and its relation to cosmological and social ordering. All of our authors analyze literary texts, both religious and secular, using a variety of critical methodologies. These include discourse theory, psychoanalytic criticism, queer theory, masculinity studies, and new historicist methodologies, among others. However, we all begin with the notion that medieval sexuality is distinct from our own conceptions of it, and that the one of the most important factors in considering its difference is its conceptualization in terms
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
