Queering the medieval Mediterranean : transcultural sea of sex, gender, identity, and culture

Author(s)

• Rojas, Felipe E.
• Thompson, Peter E.

Bibliographic Information

Queering the medieval Mediterranean : transcultural sea of sex, gender, identity, and culture

edited by Felipe E. Rojas and Peter E. Thompson

（The medieval Mediterranean : peoples, economies and cultures, 400-1453 / editors, Michael Whitby ... [et al.], v. 121）

Brill, c2021

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In ten essays authored by an international team of scholars, this volume explores queer readings of Western and Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa, Islam and Arabic traditions. The contributors enter into a dialogue, comparing cases from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, in order to analyze the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses during the Middle Ages. This collection questions the hypothesis that distinct cultures treated sexuality and the "other" differently. The volume initiates the conversation around queerness and sexuality on these trade routes, and problematizes the differences between various Mediterranean cultures in order to argue that through both queerness and sexuality, neighboring civilizations had access to, and knowledge of, common shared experiences. Contributors are Sahar Amer, Israel Burshatin, Robert L.A. Clark, Denise K. Filos, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Edmund Hayes, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Vicente Lledo-Guillem, Leyla Rouhi, and Robert S. Sturges.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction The Transcultural Medieval Mediterranean Felipe E. Rojas and Peter E. Thompson part 1 Conquests 1 Anomalous al-Andalus Time, Space, Desire Denise K. Filios 2 The Masculine Body in the Mediterranean Queering the Other in El Monserrate and Tirant lo Blanc Vicente Lled o -Guillem part 2 Femininities 3 Bad Girls and Gender Trouble in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean Sahar Amer 4 Going Between Bodies, Minds, and Spaces The Alcahueta as the Queer Third Party Leyla Rouhi part 3 Literatures 5 Perversion and Subversion Mother Guidance and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn D a niy a l's Shadow Play Edmund Hayes 6 Queer Names and Experiences in Old French and Romance Literatures Ellen Lorraine Friedrich part 4 Captives 7 Beaucaire, "Cartage," Torelore The Imaginary Mediterranean's Queer Carnival in Aucassin et Nicolette Robert S. Sturges 8 "Amor de voluntad"/"Love freely given" Homonormativity in Alfonso X, el Sabio's Legislation on Captives Israel Burshatin part 5 Encounters 9 Spain's Pecado Sodom i tico and Its Mediterranean Intertextualities Gregory S. Hutcheson 10 At the Crossroads of Intercultural Desire in the Levant Cultural Notes from the Bathhouse Robert L.A. Clark Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC07044002
• ISBN:
  • 9789004315150
• LCCN: 2021017464
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: x, 248 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ73.3.M47
  • DC23 : 306.7609182/20902
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sexual minorities -- Mediterranean region -- History
  • LCSH : Sexual minorities in literature
  • LCSH : Mediterranean Region -- History -- 476-1517
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA21184233