Between Medieval Men - Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature

Zusatztext a sober! penetrating and comprehensive study of Anglo-Saxon literature...Clark's scholarly acumen waves like a banner above the whole project...`uhis is an impressive book by any standard! written by an equally impressive scholar Klappentext Between Medieval Men is a radical new study of same-sex relations (both erotic and non-erotic) in the Anglo-Saxon period. David Clark's nuanced approach to gender and sexuality seeks to step outside modern cultural assumptions in order to explore the diversity and complexity that he shows to be characteristic of the period. Zusammenfassung Between Medieval Men is a radical new study of same-sex relations (both erotic and non-erotic) in the Anglo-Saxon period. David Clark's nuanced approach to gender and sexuality seeks to step outside modern cultural assumptions in order to explore the diversity and complexity that he shows to be characteristic of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I - INTRODUCTORY ; Introduction ; 1. A Fine Romance? Wulf and Eadwacer! The Wife's Lament! and The Husband's Message ; PART II - SAME-SEX ACTS AND IDENTITIES ; 2. Germanic pederasty: the evidence of the Classical ethnographers ; 3. Attitudes to same-sex acts in Anglo-Saxon England: earg! the penitentials! and OE baedling ; 4. The changing face of Sodom! part I: the Latin tradition ; 5. The changing face of Sodom! part II: the vernacular tradition ; PART III - HOMOSOCIAL BONDS IN OE LITERATURE ; 6. Destructive desire: sexual themes and same-sex relations in Genesis A ; 7. Heroic desire? Male relations in Beowulf! Maldon! and The Dream of the Rood ; 8. Monastic sexuality and same-sex procreation in The Phoenix ; 9. Saintly desire: same-sex relations in Aelfric's Lives of Saints ; 10. Unorthodox desire: the Anonymous Life of Euphrosyne and the Colloquies of Aelfric Bata

Product details

• Authors: David Clark, David (Lecturer in Old English Clark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9780199671175
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967117-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, CE period up to c 1500, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Gender studies, gender groups, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity