Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century

by Richard E. Zeikowitz

Book Overview

Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between male readers and imagined or actual model knights, dramatized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403960429
• ISBN13: 9781403960429
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.4"