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Title:

Same sex love and desire among women in the Middle Ages / edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave,

Copyright Date:

2001

Description:

vi, 312 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Lesbians--History.
Lesbianism in literature.
Literature, Medieval.

Other Authors:

Canadé Sautman, Francesca.
Sheingorn, Pamela.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: charting the field / Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn -- Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis of Stade: the discourse of desire / Susan Schibanoff -- Elegiac desire and female community in Baudonivia's Life of Saint Radegund / Lisa Weston -- The erased lesbian: sodomy and the legal tradition in medieval Europe / Edith Benkov -- Tribadism/lesbianism and the sexualized body in medieval Arabo-Islamic narratives / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- Jousting without a lance: the condemnation of female homoeroticism in the Livre des manières / Robert L.A. Clark -- Lesbian sex and the military: from the medieval Arabic tradition to French literature / Sahar Amer -- What can they possibly do together? Queer epic performances in Tristan de Nanteuil / Francesca Canadé Sautman -- "At all times near": love between women in two medieval Indian devotional texts / Ruth Vanita -- Leonor López de Córdoba and the configuration of female-female desire / Gregory S. Hutcheson -- "Laudomia Forteguerri loves Margaret of Austria" / Konrad Eisenbichler

Series:

The new Middle Ages

ISBN:

9780312210564
0312210566

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46809097

LCCN:

2001031312

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)