Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture by Tom Linkinen

Drawing upon wide range of primary sources and theoretical frameworks, the resultant essays unsettle the imagined fixity of gender and propose alternative conceptualizations of embodiment, identity, and difference in the medieval world.ĭownload A Little Gay History of Wales Book in PDF, Epub and KindleĪ Little Gay History of Wales tells the compelling story of Welsh LGBT life from the Middle Ages to the present day. This volume also brings together emergent and established scholars to challenge an increasingly static academy and instead envision a scholarly practice focused on intergenerational, international, and interdisciplinary collaboration. In what ways do these movements afford new configurations of gender, sexuality, and being? Enacting a dialogue between medieval studies, feminist thought, and queer theory, Medieval Mobilities proposes that attending to the undulations of premodern gender and sexuality may help destabilize unstated assumptions about ways of being and loving in the Middle Ages. Medieval Mobilities questions how medieval people, texts, images, and ideas move across physiological, geographical, literary, and spiritual boundaries. This collection explores the intersection of gender and mobility across the Global Middle Ages. 'Linkinen's book is comprehensive and he exhausts the relatively small number of texts, their actual statements, and their identifiable silences, and gets a lot out of them through his methodology of multiple frames.Download Medieval Mobilities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle 'Linkinen demonstrates the benefit of opening analysis up to a wider variety of sources and performs a valuable service by gathering those materials together within the pages of a single volume.' - Robert Mills in Mirator 'Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture is a rigorous yet warm-hearted book that provides an excellent systematic guide to a variety of possible conceptualizations of, and reactions to, same-sex sexual desire, sexual activity, and love. The combined image of the plural and somewhat contradictory voices and shared understanding appears as something entirely new.'' - Professor Jonas Liliequist, University of Umeå, Sweden. 'Linkinen's work goes beyond previous work on same-sex relations in medieval Europe in several ways. 'Tom Linkinen's study focuses on a variety of definitions, attitudes, beliefs and emotions about same-sex sexuality in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.' - Professor Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota. Academica University of Applied Sciences.

Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture by Tom Linkinen