1st Edition

Premodern Sexualities

Edited By Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero Copyright 1996
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in the historicist interpretation of early... Read more
1: The Erotics of Conquest; 1: The History that Will Be; 2: In Search of the Black Stud; 3: The Queen's Too Bawdies; 4: Henry's Desires; 2: Medicine and Law; 5: “Ut cum muliere”; 6: The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature; 7: Don't Ask, Don't Tell; 3: Sexuality and Sanctity; 8: Straight Minds/“Queer” Wishes in Old French Hagiography; 9: Sobs and Sighs Between Women; 4: Rhetoric and Poetics; 10: Virile Style; 11: Explicit Ink; 12: Sodomy and Resurrection

Biography

Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero