Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century
Richard E. Zeikowitz explores various discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse 14th century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative "queer" desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized interactions in chivalric texts, such as Charny's Book of Chivalry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Troilus and Criseyde. He also examines how...
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This book explores various discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts.
Series Editor's Foreword1Articulating Premodern Male Homoeroticism1Pt. 1Affirmations of Male Same-Sex Desire17Introduction: Promoting Homosocial Intimacy182Chivalric Bonds and the Ideals of Friendship273Competing Desires454Homoerotic Identifications675Male-Male Gazing85Pt. 2Denigrations of Male Same-Sex Desire101Introduction: Sodomy as a Discursive Weapon1026Sodomy, Politics, and Male-Male Desire1077Dramatized Sodomitical Discourse: The Case of Troilus and Pandarus131Afterword: Queer Lessons from the Fourteenth Century151Notes155Bibliography199Index213
