Same sex love and desire among women in the middle Ages

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Author: Francesca Canade Sautman

ISBN-10: 0312210566

ISBN-13: 9780312210564

Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature

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The essays treat same-sex desire and life choices among medieval women by covering a diverse cultural domain and a wider range of fields, disciplines, and approaches than ever attempted in this context before.

Series Editor's Foreword1Introduction: Charting the Field12Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis of Stade: The Discourse of Desire493Elegiac Desire and Female Community in Baudonivia's Life of Saint Radegund854The Erased Lesbian: Sodomy and the Legal Tradition in Medieval Europe1015Tribadism/Lesbianism and the Sexualized Body in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Narratives1236Jousting without a Lance: The Condemnation of Female Homoeroticism in the Livre des manieres1437Lesbian Sex and the Military: From the Medieval Arabic Tradition to French Literature1798What Can They Possibly Do Together? Queer Epic Performances in Tristan de Nanteuil1999"At All Times Near": Love Between Women in Two Medieval Indian Devotional Texts23310Leonor Lopez de Cordoba and the Configuration of Female-Female Desire25111"Laudomia Forteguerri Loves Margaret of Austria"277Index305