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Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered
behaviors were labeled "sodomitical" or evoked the use of ambiguous
phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against
nature." How, though, did these categories enter the field of
vision? How do you know a sodomite when you see one? In Seeing
Sodomy in the Middle Ages, Robert Mills explores the relationship
between sodomy and motifs of vision and visibility in medieval
culture, on the one hand, and those categories we today call gender
and sexuality, on the other. Challenging the view that ideas about
sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a
coherent form in the Middle Ages, Mills demonstrates that sodomy
had a rich, multimedia presence in the period - and that a flexible
approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many
forms this presence took. Among the topics that Mills covers are
depictions of the practices of sodomites in illuminated Bibles;
motifs of gender transformation and sex change as envisioned by
medieval artists and commentators on Ovid; sexual relations in
religious houses and other enclosed spaces; and the applicability
of modern categories such as "transgender," "butch" and "femme," or
"sexual orientation" to medieval culture. Taking in a multitude of
images, texts, and methodologies, this book will be of interest to
all scholars, regardless of discipline, who engage with gender and
sexuality in their work.
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