Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture

ISBN-13: 9789089646293 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 334 str.

Tom Linkinen

Opis

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.