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 condem...

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1. Verfasser:	Linkinen, Tom (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Crossing boundaries: Turku medieval and early modern studies
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1200-1500 Homosexuality / History Homosexuality / England / 15th century Homosexuality / England / History / 14th century Kultur Homosexualität > Motiv Künste Homosexualität England Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	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
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Dec 2020) 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 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
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (334 Seiten)
ISBN:	9789048522866
DOI:	10.1017/9789048522866