Premodern Sexualities
By: edited by Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero ; with the assistance of Kathy Lavezzo
Contributors: Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye, 1953-; Freccero, Carla, 1956-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Sex -- History -- To 1500.; Sex customs -- History -- To 1500.; Homosexuality in literature.; Sex in literature.
Description: The editors construct a genealogy for the history of sexuality, sexual practices & sexual identities, by expanding the recent abundance of work in the history of sexuality, popularized by John Boswell's Same-Sex Unions in Pre-Modern Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Caxton, Foucault, and the Pleasures of History
pagenum: xiii; label: Part I
title: The Erotics of Conquest; label: 1
title: The history that will be / Jonathan Goldberg
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: In search of the black stud / José Piedra
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: The queen's too [sic] bawdies : El burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of historicity / María Carrión
pagenum: 45; label: 4
title: Henry's desires / Richard Corum
pagenum: 71; label: Part II
title: Medicine and Law; label: 5
title: "Ut cum muliere" : a male transvestite prostitute in fourteenth century London / Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd
pagenum: 99; label: 6
title: The hermaphrodite and the orders of nature : sexual ambiguity in early modern France / Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park
pagenum: 117; label: 7
title: Don't ask, don't tell : murderous plots and medieval secrets / Karma Lochrie
pagenum: 137; label: Part III
title: Sexuality and Sanctity; label: 8
title: Straight minds/"queer" wishes in old French hagiography : La vie de Sainte Euphrosine / Simon Gaunt
pagenum: 153; label: 9
title: Sobs and sighs between women : the homoerotics of compassion in The book of Margery Kempe / Kathy Lavezzo
pagenum: 175; label: Part IV
title: Rhetoric and Poetics; label: 10
title: Virile style / Patricia Parker
pagenum: 199; label: 11
title: Explicit ink / Elizabeth Pittenger
pagenum: 223; label: 12
title: Sodomy and resurrection : the homoerotic subject of the Divine comedy / Bruce Holsinger
pagenum: 243