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Sex, blood, and gender have diverse associations in the Malorian
tradition, yet their inter-relatedness and intersections are
comparatively understudied. This present collection of essays is
intended to go some way toward remedying the need for a sustained
examination of blood ties, kinship, gender, and sexuality, and the
prominence of these themes in Malory's work. They concentrate in
particular upon the analyses of sexuality and sexual activity (and
its lack or erasure) and the significance of blood (and
blood-shedding) in the Morte Darthur, as well as the
interconnections with gender (biological sex) and familial
("blood") relations in the Morte, its sources and its later
reworkings. The result is a wide-ranging investigation into related
but distinctive thematic preoccupations, including the national and
kinship affiliations of Malorian knights, sibling relationships,
deviant sexuality, and blood-spilling in martial and intimate
contexts. Contributors: Christina Francis, Megan G. Leitch, Helen
Phillips, Carolyne Larrington, Lydia A. Fletcher, Kate McClune,
Sally Mapstone, Caitlyn Schwartz, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Anna
Caughey, Catherine LaFarge
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
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
Important and wide-ranging studies of the ideological exploitations
performed by and upon the medieval romance. As one of the most
important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the
romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons:
to celebrate and justify war and conflict, chivalric ideologies,
and national, local and regional identities; to rationalize
contemporary power structures, and identify the present with the
legendary past; to align individual desires and aspirations with
social virtues. But the romance in turn exploitedavailable figures
of value, appropriating the tropes and strategies of religious and
historical writing, and cannibalizing and recreating its own
materials for heightened ideological effect. The essays in this
volume consider individual romances, groups of writings and the
genre more widely, elucidating a variety of exploitative manoeuvres
in terms of text, context, and intertext. Contributors: Neil
Cartlidge, Ivana Djordjevic, Judith Weiss, Melissa Furrow, Rosalind
Field, Diane Vincent, Corinne Saunders, Arlyn Diamond, Anna
Caughey, Laura Ashe
Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance -
and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance
narratives glitter with the material objects that were valued and
exchanged in late-medieval society: lovers' rings and warriors'
swords, holy relics and desirable or corrupted bodies. Romance,
however, is also agenre in which such objects make meaning on
numerous levels, and not always in predictable ways. These new
essays examine from diverse perspectives how romances respond to
material culture, but also show how romance as a genre helps to
constitute and transmit that culture. Focusing on romances
circulating in Britain and Ireland between the twelfth and
sixteenth centuries, individual chapters address such questions as
the relationship between objects and protagonists in romance
narrative; the materiality of male and female bodies; the
interaction between visual and verbal representations of romance;
poetic form and manuscript textuality; and how a nineteenth-century
edition of medieval romances provoked artists to homage and satire.
NICHOLAS PERKINS is Associate Professor and Tutor in English at St
Hugh's College, University of Oxford. Contributors: Siobhain Bly
Calkin, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Aisling Byrne, Anna Caughey, Neil
Cartlidge, Mark Cruse, Morgan Dickson, Rosalind Field, Elliot
Kendall, Megan G. Leitch, Henrike Manuwald, Nicholas Perkins, Ad
Putter, Raluca L. Radulescu, Robert Allen Rouse,
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