Titlebook: Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts; Jennifer N. Brown,Marla Segol Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of

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Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts

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Introduction: Narrating Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Texts,rue resemblance to the divine. On the other hand, God does not have a body, so that embodiment is an index of the radical separation between human and divine. Similarly, medieval monotheists believed that both body and cosmos were divinely created according to the same model, so that the human being

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,The Whore as ,: Being and Abjection in Hrotsvit’s Rewriting of Thais,es shortly thereafter, a saintly woman. It is a tale of abjection, first and foremost, showcasing a prostitute, who by virtue of her profession refuses to fit into the place assigned her by society, as the Christian who sins despite her faith. In its rudimentary form, the legend serves as an indictm

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Alan of Lille on the Little Bits that Make a Difference,the complaint is framed against any act that thwarts the reproductive impulse, and, as has often been noted, it is striking that the word “sodomy” never appears in the entire work. It is not enough to read the complicated grammatical circumlocutions as medieval longhand for today’s straight and quee

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The Double Bind of Chivalric Sexuality in the Late-Medieval English Romance,for example,. or that a couple might maintain chastity even while having sex,. indicates that the narrative meaning of erotic desire and sexual activity requires close attention and a good deal of historical contextualization. Examination of the Middle English romances, specifically those dealing wi

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Introduction: Narrating Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Texts, The range is wide and yet it shows that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, are grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality: How does it conform to or reproduce world order? How might it disrupt that order? Does it bring people closer to the divine, or doe