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

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

"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...

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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)
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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.

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