Medieval Writings on Sex between Men

Peter Damian’s The Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille’s The Plaint of Nature

David Rollo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-42965-9 (ISBN)

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David Rollo translates, for the first time together, Peter Damian’s The Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille’s The Plaint of Nature, the most famous medieval writings on male same-sex relations. He also provides critical commentaries to situate both in historical and cultural context.

What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response.

What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifying and excoriating male same-sex relations, yet does so in a text showing an exuberant and unabashed orientation towards metaphorical language? Is the author in question rhetorically perpetrating precisely the so-called affront to nature he grammatically denounces? Twelfth-century poet Alain de Lille enacts an ambiguously enigmatic response.

David Rollo (Ph.D. Princeton, 1988), is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He has previously taught English at the Université Française de l’Océan Indien (La Réunion) and French at Dartmouth College. His books are Historical Fabrication, Ethnic Fable and French Romance in Twelfth-Century England(1998), Glamorous Sorcery: Magic and Literacy in the High Middle Ages(2000), and Kiss my Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages(2011).

Acknowledgements

General Introduction

1 Peter Damian, The Book of Gomorrah

2 Alain de Lille, The Plaint of Nature

3 Importance to Medieval Studies

4 Existing Translations

5 Approach to Translation, Notes, and Sources

6 Terminology

Part 1: Peter Damian, The Book of Gomorrah (Liber Gomorrhianus)

Peter Damian: Life

Critical Commentary

Text

Part 2: Alain de Lille, The Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae)

Alain de Lille: Life

Critical Commentary

Text

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 19
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	452 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-42965-4 / 9004429654
ISBN-13	978-90-04-42965-9 / 9789004429659
Zustand	Neuware