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Informationen zum Autor Gary Ferguson is the Douglas Huntly Gordon Distinguished Professor of French at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Queer (Re)Readings in the French Renaissance: Homosexuality, Gender, Culture and Mirroring Belief: Marguerite de Navarre's Devotional Poetry and the coeditor of several books, including A Companion to Marguerite de Navarre . Klappentext Emphasizing the instability of marriage in premodern Europe, Ferguson argues that same-sex unions should be considered part of the institution's complex and contested... Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Engagement PART I. STORIES-OBSERVERS 1. A French Writer Visits: Montaigne's Travel Journal and a Thrice-Told Tale 2. "Our Marriages"? Male to Male / Like Husband and Wife 3. Marriage- Rites, Analogues, Meanings 4. Other Witnesses, Other Stories PART II. STORIES-ACTORS 5. Final Hours: Wills and Execution 6. Voices on Trial: Beginning with Battista the Boatman 7. Saint John at the Latin Gate: Marco Pinto 8. Marriage as Alibi, as Euphemism, as Recruitment 9. Marriage and Community PART III. HISTORIES 10. Looking Forward / Looking Back: The History of Sexuality 11. Ghost Stories: Queer History
