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The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual
desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures. This
collection brings together a group of experts from a variety of
disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the
transformation of sexual ideas, attitudes, and practices in
premodern Europe. Among the topics considered are the visibility of
sexual offenses and the construction of passions; the geographical
range extends to Great Britain, with extended attention also to
France as well as Northern and Eastern Europe. The result is a
groundbreaking volume that adds significantly to our understanding
of premodern European history, history of sexualities, gender
studies, religious history, and many other fields.
This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later
medieval England, drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary
sources from the period that include legal documents, artworks,
theological treatises, and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources
to build a framework of medieval condemnations of same-sex intimacy
and desire and then shows how same-sex sexuality reflected - and
was inflected by - gender hierarchies, approaches to crime, and the
conspicuous silence on the matter in the legal systems of the
period.
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