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Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century

Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century

Zeikowitz, R.

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Gender StudiesGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1403960429
ISBN13: 9781403960429
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 10 2003
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.44 Depth: 8.36
Language: English
Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between male readers and imagined or actual model knights, dramatized accounts of same-sex unions, and mutually stimulating - or competing - forces of homosocial and heterosexual desire in chivalric texts, such as Charny's Book of Chivalry, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Troilus and Criseyde . He also examines how intimate male bonds are rendered sodomitically-inflected, dangerous attachments in chronicle narratives of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II.

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