ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that Malorian knighthood is both compulsorily able-bodied and compulsorily heteronormative. Some of the Morte's early instances of sexuality or sexual practices that deviate from the heteronormative are often associated with disability or result in physical injury that is framed as a punishment for such practices. "Cripping" Klosowska's scheme spotlights the fact that a body must be disabled in order to articulate castration and imply non-heteronormative sexuality. "Cripping" Klosowska's scheme spotlights the fact that a body must be disabled in order to articulate castration and imply non-heteronormative sexuality. Lancelot's wounded buttock does not only punish his heteronormative sexual transgression as it also shares connections with subversive gender and queer desire. Lancelot's queer relationships, then, heal—indeed, reverse—injuries caused by his deviant heteronormative relationships with Guenevere and Elaine. Disability is at the center of Lancelot and Lavain's relationship, and their bond develops and intensifies through the disabling and subsequent healing of Lancelot's figurative castrations.
