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1 online resource (335 pages). |
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| Series |
Crossing boundaries
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Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. In search of same-sex sexuality and later medieval English culture -- 2 Primary sources: Discussing the versatile past -- 3. Secondary sources: Discussing medieval sexuality -- I. Framing condemnations: Sodomy, sin against nature, and crime -- 1. Judgement of sodomy -- 2. Sin against nature and fallen flesh -- 3. Disturbing gender boundaries -- 4. A crime lacking law -- II. Silencing the unmentionable vice -- 1. Silence around same-sex sexuality -- 2. Repeated silencing as shared knowledge -- III. Stigmatising with same-sex sexuality -- 1. The two kings and their rumoured lovers -- 2. Sodomitical religious opponents -- 3. Accumulating accusations -- IV. Sharing disgust and fear -- 1. "Stinking deed" and "spiteful filth" -- 2. Fear of sin against nature in one's nature -- 3. Sharing nightmares of sin against nature -- 4. Placing same-sex sexuality out of this world -- V. Sharing laughter -- 1. Laughing at same-sex sexuality -- 2. Chaucer's Pardoner, "geldyng or a mare" and more -- VI. Framing possibilities: Silences, friendships, deepest love -- 1. Possibilities behind silence and confusion -- 2. Closest friends -- 3. Deepest love -- Conclusions -- 1. From stinking deeds to deepest love -- 2. Closing with queer possibilities -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Index -- List of figures -- Figure 1: Punishment for sodomy carved in stone, from the left, Lincoln Cathedral, a reconstruction of a twelfth-century stone frieze -- Figure 2: Punishment for sodomy carved in stone, from the right, Lincoln Cathedral, a reconstruction of a twelfth-century stone frieze -- Figure 3: Tutivillus the devil and two women gossiping in a church, Beverley Minster, Beverley, North Yorkshire, fourteenth century. |
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Figure 4: A joined tombstone of Sir John Clanvowe and Sir William Neville, Archaeological Museum of Istanbul -- Figure 5: "A tomb slab of an English couple," Archaeological Museum of Istanbul -- Figure 6: A closer look at two helmets face-to-face above, and two coats of arms with shared heraldry below, Archaeological Museum of Istanbul. |
| Summary |
This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval condemnations of same-sex intimacy and desire and then shows how same-sex sexuality reflected-and was inflected by-gender hierarchies, approaches to crime, and the conspicuous silence on the matter in the legal systems of the period. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- History.
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Homosexuality. |
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History. |
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Homosexuality -- England -- History -- 14th century.
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England. |
| Chronological Term |
14th century |
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Homosexuality -- England -- 15th century.
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| Chronological Term |
15th century |
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1300-1499 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Homosexuality. |
| Other Form: |
Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Linkinen, Tom. Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture |
| ISBN |
9048522862 (electronic book) |
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9789048522866 (electronic book) |
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9789089646293 |
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9089646299 |
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