Queering the medieval Mediterranean : : transcultural sea of sex, gender, identity, and culture / / edited by Felipe E. Rojas and Peter E.Thompson.

• Superior document: The Medieval Mediterranean ; Volume 121
• TeilnehmendeR: Rojas, Felipe E.,; Thompson, Peter E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Mediterranean ; v. 121.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 pages)

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Transcultural Medieval Mediterranean -- Acknowledgement -- Works Cited -- Part 1 Conquests -- Chapter 1 Anomalous al-Andalus: Time, Space, Desire -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 The Masculine Body in the Mediterranean: Queering the Other in El Monserrate and Tirant lo Blanc -- 1 Searching for the Origin of Diego Florel's Physical Attributes: The Classical Epic -- 2 The Masculinity of the Italian, Catalan, and Muslim Characters in El Monserrate -- 3 Responding to the Threat of the Crown of Aragon in Tirant lo Blanc -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Part 2 Femininities -- Chapter 3 Bad Girls and Gender Trouble in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean -- 1 Shajarat al-Durr's Ascendance to the Sultanate of Egypt -- 2 European Chronicles of the Seventh Crusade -- 3 Literary Production in the Middle of the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean -- 4 Contemporary Legacy of "Bad Girls" -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 Going Between Bodies, Minds, and Spaces: The Alcahueta as the Queer Third Party -- Works Cited -- Part 3 Literatures -- Chapter 5 Perversion and Subversion: Mother Guidance and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl's Shadow Play -- 1 Complex Framings -- 2 Transgression, Potency and Female Agency -- 3 Sexual Pleasure, Linguistic Pleasure -- 4 In (Dis)praise of Procreation -- 5 The Perils of Stepping Out of Character -- 6 Death and Repentance -- 7 Mother Guidance and the Carnivalesque -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 Queer Names and Experiences in Old French and Romance Literatures -- Works Cited -- Part 4 Captives -- Chapter 7 Beaucaire, "Cartage," Torelore: The Imaginary Mediterranean's Queer Carnival in Aucassin et Nicolette -- Works Cited.

Chapter 8 "Amor de voluntad"/"Love freely given": Homonormativity in Alfonso X, el Sabio's Legislation on Captives -- Works Cited -- Part 5 Encounters -- Chapter 9 Spain's Pecado Sodomítico and Its Mediterranean Intertextualities -- 1 Partidas 7.21's Euro-Christian Textualities -- 2 Sodomy in a Transconfessional Mode -- 3 From the Transconfessional Sodom to the Mediterranean Queer -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10 At the Crossroads of Intercultural Desire in the Levant: Cultural Notes from the Bathhouse -- Works Cited -- Index.