Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture (Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies, #1)

by Tom Linkinen

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This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks, theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval condemnations of same-sex intimacy and desire and then shows how same-sex sexuality reflected - and was inflected by - gender hierarchies, approaches to crime, and the conspicuous silence on the matter in the legal systems of the period.
  • ISBN13 9789089646293
  • Publish Date 15 April 2015 (first published 8 April 2015)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country NL
  • Imprint Amsterdam University Press