Troubled Vision
Subtitle: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image (The New Middle Ages)
Contributors: Emma Campbell (Editor); Robert Mills (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 7, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781403963437
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature, Medieval; History - General History; Literary Criticism; Women in literature; Medieval; Gender Studies; Literary Criticism & Collections / Medieval; Congresses; History and criticism; Sex role in literature
First sentence: "This chapter will explore two previously unrecognized images of same-sex desire, Petrus Christus's Couple in a Goldsmith's Shop and the Housebook Master's Falconer, which both employ the falcon as a sign of love (figures 1.1 and 1.8)."