Same sex love and desire among women in the Middle Ages /

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Other Authors: Canadé Sautman, Francesca, Sheingorn, Pamela
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: charting the field / Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn
  • Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis of Stade: the discourse of desire / Susan Schibanoff
  • Elegiac desire and female community in Baudonivia's Life of Saint Radegund / Lisa Weston
  • The erased lesbian: sodomy and the legal tradition in medieval Europe / Edith Benkov
  • Tribadism/lesbianism and the sexualized body in medieval Arabo-Islamic narratives / Fedwa Malti-Douglas
  • Jousting without a lance: the condemnation of female homoeroticism in the Livre des manières / Robert L.A. Clark
  • Lesbian sex and the military: from the medieval Arabic tradition to French literature / Sahar Amer
  • What can they possibly do together? Queer epic performances in Tristan de Nanteuil / Francesca Canadé Sautman
  • "At all times near": love between women in two medieval Indian devotional texts / Ruth Vanita
  • Leonor López de Córdoba and the configuration of female-female desire / Gregory S. Hutcheson
  • "Laudomia Forteguerri loves Margaret of Austria" / Konrad Eisenbichler