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Authors: William E. Burgwinkle, Patrick Boyde (Editor), Alastair Minnis
ISBN-13: 9780521839686, ISBN-10: 0521839688
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: William E. Burgwinkle

William Burgwinkle is Lecturer in French and Occitan in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages in the University of Cambridge and fellow at King's College. He is the author of Love for Sale: Materialist Readings of the Troubadour Razo Corpus Razos and Troubadour Songs (1997) and the editor of Significant Others: Film and Literature, East and West (1993).

Book Synopsis

This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Table of Contents

1Locating sodomy19
2Imagining sodomy46
3Making Perceval : double-binding and sieges perilleux89
4Queering the Celtic : Marie de France and the men who don't marry138
5Writing the self : Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae170

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