Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages

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Overview

While scholarship in lesbian/gay studies, queer studies, and studies of gender and sexuality has had an enormous impact on medieval studies, little attention has been paid thus far to women who chose to live according to same-sex affectivity and desire. General treatments of homosexuality in the Middle Ages have assumed that little can be said on the subject. The contributors explore the many ways that lesbian love and desire may have been articulated and represented in the medieval period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312210564
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Edition description:	1st ed. 2090
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

Francesca Canadé Sautman teaches courses at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate School.

Pamela Sheingorn is Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY, and of Theater at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Table of Contents

Charting the Fiel--Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn
• Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis von Stade--Susan Schibanoff
• Elegaic Desire and Female Community in Baudonivia’s Life of St. Radegund--Lisa Weston
• Sodomy and the Legal Tradition in Medieval Europe--Edith Benkov
• Tribadism/Lesbianism in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Narratives--Fedwa Malti-Douglas
• The Condemnation of Lesbianism in the Livres des manieres--Robert Clark
• Gender, Sexuality and Folklore, French Texts and Contexts--Francesca Canadé Sautman
• Love Between Women in Two Medieval Indian Devotional Texts--Ruth Vanita
• Writing Sex in the Inquisition--Israel Burshatin
• Leonor Lopez de Cordoba and the Configurations of Female-Female Desire--Gregory S. Hutcheson
• Laudomia Forteguerri Loves Margaret of Austria--Konrad Eisenbichler

Editorial Reviews

"Though scrupulously scholarly, this is an accessible and useful volume as well."--Jacqueline Murray, The Historian

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