An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety
of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and
alchemical treatises. It is often said that the past is a foreign
country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of
"doing" is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our
modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised bya polarising
dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of
romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an
unenlightened "medieval" sexuality on the other. British medieval
sexual culture also exhibits such dualities through the influential
paradigms of sinner or saint, virgin or whore, and protector or
defiler of women. However, such sexual identities are rarely
coherent or stable, and it is in the grey areas, the interstices
between normative modes of sexuality, that we find the most
compelling instances of erotic frisson and sexual expression. This
collection of essays brings together a wide-ranging discussion of
the sexual possibilitiesand fantasies of medieval Britain as they
manifest themselves in the literature of the period. Taking as
their matter texts and authors as diverse as Chaucer, Gower,
Dunbar, Malory, alchemical treatises, and romances, the
contributions reveal a surprising variety of attitudes, strategies
and sexual subject positions. Amanda Hopkins teaches in English and
French at the University of Warwick; Robert Allen Rouse is
Associate Professor of English atthe University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Cory James Rushton
is Associate Professor of English at St Francis Xavier University
in Nova Scotia, Canada. Contributors: Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey,
Kristina Hildebrand, Amy S. Kaufman, Yvette Kisor, Megan G. Leitch,
Cynthea Masson, Hannah Priest, Samantha J. Rayner, Robert Allen
Rouse, Cory James Rushton, Amy N. Vines
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