ABSTRACT
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 textualizations of sexuality. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make--through its emphasis on reading strategies--to the historiography of sexuality.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|97 pages
The Erotics of Conquest
part 2|54 pages
Medicine and Law
chapter 6|20 pages
The Hermaphrodite and the Orders of Nature
Sexual Ambiguity in Early Modern France
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part 3|46 pages
Sexuality and Sanctity
chapter 8|19 pages
Straight Minds/“Queer” Wishes in Old French Hagiography
La Vie de Sainte Euphrosine
chapter 9|24 pages
Sobs and Sighs Between Women
The Homoerotics of Compassion in The Book of Margery Kempe
part 4|76 pages
Rhetoric and Poetics
