Burgwinkle, English Literature, Cambridge, Details.
These blurred boundaries allow readers to glimpse alternative, even homoerotic, readings. Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature, William E. What emerges from these readings, however, is that even the most homophobic, masculinist and normative texts of the period demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to separate the sodomitical from the orthodox. Most texts of the period denounce sodomy and use accusations of sodomitical practice as a way of maintaining a sacrificial climate in which masculine identity is set in opposition to the stigmatised other, for example the foreign, the feminine, and the heretical. Burgwinkle illustrates how 'sodomy' becomes a problematic feature of narratives of romance and knighthood. William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards. William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature France and England, 1050-1230 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by William E. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature). Writing the self: Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae. Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230. Queering the Celts: men who don't marry in Marie de France menuDrawerCloseText menuDrawerOpenText Home. Making Perceval: double-binding and sieges perilleux Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p.
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