Medieval writings on sex between men : : Peter Damian's the book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's the plaint of nature / / introduced and translated from the Latin by David Rollo.
What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response. What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifying and excoriating male...
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Superior document: | Explorations in medieval culture ; Volume 19 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Explorations in medieval culture ;
Volume 19. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 pages) |
Notes: | David Rollo translates, for the first time together, Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille’s The Plaint of Nature, the most famous medieval writings on male same-sex relations. He also provides critical commentaries to situate both in historical and cultural context. |
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520 | |a What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response. What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifying and excoriating male same-sex relations, yet does so in a text showing an exuberant and unabashed orientation towards metaphorical language? Is the author in question rhetorically perpetrating precisely the so-called affront to nature he grammatically denounces? Twelfth-century poet Alain de Lille enacts an ambiguously enigmatic response. | ||
500 | |a David Rollo translates, for the first time together, Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille’s The Plaint of Nature, the most famous medieval writings on male same-sex relations. He also provides critical commentaries to situate both in historical and cultural context. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- 1 Peter Damian, The Book of Gomorrah -- 2 Alain de Lille, The Plaint of Nature -- 3 Importance to Medieval Studies -- 4 Existing Translations -- 5 Approach to Translation, Notes, and Sources -- 6 Terminology -- Part 1: Peter Damian, The Book of Gomorrah (Liber Gomorrhianus) -- Peter Damian: Life -- Critical Commentary -- Text -- Part 2: Alain de Lille, The Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae) -- Alain de Lille: Life -- Critical Commentary -- Text -- Bibliography -- Index. | |
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650 | 0 | |a Homosexuality |v Early works to 1800. | |
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