Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture / / Tom Linkinen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014
• VerfasserIn: Linkinen, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 p.) :; 7 halftones

This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval condemnations of same-sex intimacy and desire and then shows how same-sex sexuality reflected—and was inflected by—gender hierarchies, approaches to crime, and the conspicuous silence on the matter in the legal systems of the period.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. Framing Condemnations: Sodomy, Sin Against Nature, And Crime -- II. Silencing The Unmentionable Vice -- III. Stigmatising With Same-Sex Sexuality -- IV. Sharing Disgust And Fear -- V.Sharing laughter -- VI. Framing Possibilities: Silences, Friendships, Deepest Love -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index