Premodern sexualities

by Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye Freccero, Carla

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Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating pre-modern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretations of early textualizations of sexuality.

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Title Statements

Full title :Premodern sexualities / edited by Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero ; with the assistance of Kathy Lavezzo.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1995.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:1995.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiv, 276 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0415912571, 9780415912570, 041591258X, 9780415912587
oclc:ocm32697923
LC Classification:HQ12
Dewey Decimal:306.7

The history that will be / Jonathan Goldberg -- In search of the black stud / José Piedra -- The queen's too [sic] bawdies : El burlador de Sevilla and the Teasing of historicity / María Carrión -- Henry's desires / Richard Corum -- "Ut cum muliere" : a male transvestite prostitute in fourteenth century London / Ruth Mazo Karras and David Lorenzo Boyd -- The hermaphrodite and the orders of nature : sexual ambiguity in early modern France / Lorraine Daston and Katharine Park -- Don't ask, don't tell : murderous plots and medieval secrets / Karma Lochrie -- Straight minds/"queer" wishes in old French hagiography : La vie de Sainte Euphrosine / Simon Gaunt -- Sobs and sighs between women : the homoerotics of compassion in The book of Margery Kempe / Kathy Lavezzo -- Virile style / Patricia Parker -- Explicit ink / Elizabeth Pittenger -- Sodomy and resurrection : the homoerotic subject of the Divine comedy / Bruce Holsinger.

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History Homosexualité Homosexualité -- Dans la littérature homosexuality Homosexuality in literature Sex Sex -- History Sex -- History -- To 1500 Sex customs Sex customs -- History -- To 1500 Sex in literature Sexual Behavior -- history Sexualité dans la littérature Sexuality -- history To 1500