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Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts

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Author(s): Jennifer N. Brown, Marla Segol (eds.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2013

Language: English
Tags: History of Medieval Europe; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Medieval Literature; Literature, general; Gender Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction: Narrating Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Texts....Pages 1-6
The Whore as Imago Dei: Being and Abjection in Hrotsvit’s Rewriting of Thais....Pages 7-32
Alan of Lille on the Little Bits that Make a Difference....Pages 33-54
Queer Hermeneutics and Redemption in the Cosmology of the Zohar ....Pages 55-78
Born Under the Sign of Venus: Phantasmatic Desire and the Woman-Who-Never-Was in the Libro De Buen Amor ....Pages 79-99
The Double Bind of Chivalric Sexuality in the Late-Medieval English Romance....Pages 101-121
Divine Orgasm and Self-Blazoning: The Fragmented Body of the Female Medieval Visionary....Pages 123-143
Cosmology, Sexuality, and Music in Robert Henryson’s “Orpheus and Eurydice”....Pages 145-158
Cresseid’s Dignity: Cosmology and Sexuality in Henryson’s “Testament”....Pages 159-179
Back Matter....Pages 181-194