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