Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts [electronic resource] /
Brown, J.editor.
Segol, M.editor.
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.
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
Includes index.
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.
Europe-History-476-1492.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Literature, Medieval.
Literature.
Sociology.
History of Medieval Europe.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Medieval Literature.
Literature, general.
Gender Studies.