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

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subject:	Sexual minorities -- Mediterranean Region -- History. Sexual minorities in literature. Sexual minorities. Sexual minorities in literature. Mediterranean Region -- History -- 476-1517. Mediterranean Region. History.
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 Lledó-Guillem, Leyla Rouhi, and Robert S. Sturges"--
Other form:	Online version: Queering the medieval Mediterranean Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] 9789004465329

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the transcultural medieval Mediterranean / Felipe E. Rojas and Peter E. Thompson
Part 1. Conquests
Anomalous al-Andalus: Time, space, desire / Denise K. Filios
The masculine body in the Mediterranean: queering the other in El Monserrate and Tirant lo Blanc / Vicente Lledó- Guillem
Part 2. Femininities
Bad girls and gender trouble in the thirteenth-ventury Mediterranean / Sahar Amer
Going between bodies, minds, and spaces: the Alcahueta as the queer third party / Leyla Rouhi
Part 3. Literatures
Perversion and subversion: Mother Guidance and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl's Shadow Play / Edmund Hayes
Queer names and experiences in Old French and Romance literatures / Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
Part 4. Captives
Beaucaire, "Cartage," Torelore: the imaginary Mediterranean's queer carnival in Aucassin et Nicolette / Robert S. Sturges
"Amor de voluntad"/ "Love freely given": homonormativity in Alfonso X, el Sabio's Legislation on Captives / Israel Burshatin
Part 5. Encounters
Spain's Pecado Sodomítico and its Mediterranean intertextualities / Gregory S. Hutcheson
At the crossroads of intercultural desire in the Levant: Cultural Notes from the Bathhouse / Robert L.A. Clark.

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