Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture

By Tom Linkinen

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9089646299
• ISBN13: 9789089646293
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"