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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 Informationen zum Autor After completing his doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford, David Clark held Stipendiary Lectureships at Wadham, Brasenose and Worcester Colleges, before his appointment as Lecturer in Old English at the University of Leicester. He has published a series of articles in leading journals stemming from his doctoral work on vengeance and heroism in Old English and Old Norse literature. He co-edited and contributed to Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture (Viking Society for Northern Research, 2007). He is now working on a major study of male friendship across the medieval period. 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 Ælfric's Lives of Saints 10: Unorthodox desire: the Anonymous Life of Euphrosyne and the Colloquies of Ælfric Bata ...
