Queering the Medieval Mediterranean: Transcultural Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity, and Culture

Felipe Rojas, Peter E. Thompson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2021
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-31515-0 (ISBN)

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Queering the Medieval Mediterranean analyzes the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses. It highlights the importance of queerness and sexuality developed on the Mediterranean trade routes.

In ten essays authored by an international team of scholars, this volume explores queer readings of Western and Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa, Islam and Arabic traditions. The contributors enter into a dialogue, comparing cases from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, in order to analyze the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses during the Middle Ages.

This collection questions the hypothesis that distinct cultures treated sexuality and the “other” differently. The volume initiates the conversation around queerness and sexuality on these trade routes, and problematizes the differences between various Mediterranean cultures in order to argue that through both queerness and sexuality, neighboring civilizations had access to, and knowledge of, common shared experiences.

Contributors are Sahar Amer, Israel Burshatin, Robert L.A. Clark, Denise K. Filos, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Edmund Hayes, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Leyla Rouhi, and Robert S. Sturges.

Felipe E. Rojas, Ph.D. (2014), University of Chicago, is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at West Liberty University. His interest include Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature, queer and gay studies, and mythology (specifically the figure of Ganymede). Peter E. Thompson, Ph.D. (1999), Penn State University, is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University. He has written extensively on Juan Rana, the alias of Cosme Pérez, a popular actor between the years 1617 and 1672 (Spanish Golden Age).

Notes on Contributors

Introduction The Transcultural Medieval Mediterranean

Felipe E. Rojas and Peter E. Thompson

part 1

Conquests

1 Anomalous al-Andalus Time, Space, Desire

Denise K. Filios

2 The Masculine Body in the Mediterranean Queering the Other in El Monserrate and Tirant lo Blanc

Vicente Lledó-Guillem

part 2

Femininities

3 Bad Girls and Gender Trouble in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean

Sahar Amer

4 Going Between Bodies, Minds, and Spaces The Alcahueta as the Queer Third Party

Leyla Rouhi

part 3

Literatures

5 Perversion and Subversion Mother Guidance and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl’s Shadow Play

Edmund Hayes

6 Queer Names and Experiences in Old French and Romance Literatures

Ellen Lorraine Friedrich

part 4

Captives

7 Beaucaire, “Cartage,” Torelore The Imaginary Mediterranean’s Queer Carnival in Aucassin et Nicolette

Robert S. Sturges

8 “Amor de voluntad”/“Love freely given” Homonormativity in Alfonso X, el Sabio’s Legislation on Captives

Israel Burshatin

part 5

Encounters

9 Spain’s Pecado Sodomítico and Its Mediterranean Intertextualities

Gregory S. Hutcheson

10 At the Crossroads of Intercultural Desire in the Levant Cultural Notes from the Bathhouse

Robert L.A. Clark

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	30.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Medieval Mediterranean ; 121
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	557 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-31515-2 / 9004315152
ISBN-13	978-90-04-31515-0 / 9789004315150
Zustand	Neuware