Queering the medieval Mediterranean : transcultural sea of sex, gender, identity, and culture /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Description:x, 248 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1500; volume 121
Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 121.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12643683
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Other authors / contributors:Rojas, Felipe E., editor.
Thompson, Peter E., editor.
ISBN:9789004315150
9004315152
9789004465329
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"In ten essays authored by an international team of scholars, this volume explores queer readings of Western and Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa, Islam and Arabic traditions. The contributors enter into a dialogue, comparing cases from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, in order to analyze the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses during the Middle Ages. This collection questions the hypothesis that distinct cultures treated sexuality and the "other" differently. The volume initiates the conversation around queerness and sexuality on these trade routes, and problematizes the differences between various Mediterranean cultures in order to argue that through both queerness and sexuality, neighboring civilizations had access to, and knowledge of, common shared experiences. Contributors are Sahar Amer, Israel Burshatin, Robert L.A. Clark, Denise K. Filos, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Edmund Hayes, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Vicente LledoĢ-Guillem, Leyla Rouhi, and Robert S. Sturges"--
Other form:Online version: Queering the medieval Mediterranean Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004465329