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

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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. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Transcultural Medieval Mediterranean Acknowledgement Works Cited Part 1 Conquests Chapter 1 Anomalous al-Andalus: Time, Space, Desire Works Cited Chapter 2 The Masculine Body in the Mediterranean: Queering the Other in El Monserrate and Tirant lo Blanc 1 Searching for the Origin of Diego Florel’s Physical Attributes: The Classical Epic 2 The Masculinity of the Italian, Catalan, and Muslim Characters in El Monserrate 3 Responding to the Threat of the Crown of Aragon in Tirant lo Blanc 4 Conclusion Works Cited Part 2 Femininities Chapter 3 Bad Girls and Gender Trouble in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean 1 Shajarat al-Durr’s Ascendance to the Sultanate of Egypt 2 European Chronicles of the Seventh Crusade 3 Literary Production in the Middle of the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean 4 Contemporary Legacy of “Bad Girls” Works Cited Chapter 4 Going Between Bodies, Minds, and Spaces: The Alcahueta as the Queer Third Party Works Cited Part 3 Literatures Chapter 5 Perversion and Subversion: Mother Guidance and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl’s Shadow Play 1 Complex Framings 2 Transgression, Potency and Female Agency 3 Sexual Pleasure, Linguistic Pleasure 4 In (Dis)praise of Procreation 5 The Perils of Stepping Out of Character 6 Death and Repentance 7 Mother Guidance and the Carnivalesque Works Cited Chapter 6 Queer Names and Experiences in Old French and Romance Literatures Works Cited Part 4 Captives Chapter 7 Beaucaire, “Cartage,” Torelore: The Imaginary Mediterranean’s Queer Carnival in Aucassin et Nicolette Works Cited Chapter 8 “Amor de voluntad”/“Love freely given”: Homonormativity in Alfonso X, el Sabio’s Legislation on Captives Works Cited Part 5 Encounters Chapter 9 Spain’s Pecado Sodomítico and Its Mediterranean Intertextualities 1 Partidas 7.21’s Euro-Christian Textualities 2 Sodomy in a Transconfessional Mode 3 From the Transconfessional Sodom to the Mediterranean Queer Works Cited Chapter 10 At the Crossroads of Intercultural Desire in the Levant: Cultural Notes from the Bathhouse Works Cited Index