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Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

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Description for Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance Paperback. Offers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. Editor(s): Blackmore, Josiah; Hutcheson, Gregory S. Series: Series Q. Num Pages: 488 pages, 3 illustrations, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 1DSP; HBTB; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5741 x 3963 x 36. Weight in Grams: 803.
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries when political hegemony in the region passed from Muslim to Christian hands.
To show how sexual otherness is most evident at points of cultural conflict, the contributors use a variety of methodologies and perspectives and consider source materials that originated in Castilian, Latin, Arabic, Catalan, and Galician-Portuguese. Covering topics from the martydom of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Series
Series Q
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822323495
SKU
V9780822323495
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Blackmore
Josiah Blackmore is Assistant Professor of Portuguese at the University of Toronto. Gregory S. Hutcheson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Reviews for Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
“An outstanding collection. The pieces are sharp, bold, well argued, and witty; the whole project is—above all—crucial to the much-needed expansion of the fields of Hispanic, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies.”—Carolyn Dinshaw, author of Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics and Getting Medieval “In this provocative volume, an impressive collection of scholars, undaunted by a tradition of more solemn readings, train the powerful double ... Read more

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