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Seeing sodomy in the Middle Ages /

022616912X

022616926X

9780226169125

9780226169262

9780226169262

Seeing sodomy in the Middle Ages /

[Book]

Robert Mills.

Chicago :

The University of Chicago Press,

2015.

xiii, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :

illustrations (some color) ;

27 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-382) .and index.

Introduction: Jerome in a dress -- Translating Sodom -- Transgender time -- The first sodomite -- The sex lives of monks -- Orientations -- Conclusions.

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"During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical" or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature." How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when you see one? In Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages, Robert Mills explores the relationship between sodomy and motifs of vision and visibility in medieval culture, on the one hand, and those categories we today call gender and sexuality, on the other. Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, Mills demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period--and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took. Among the topics that Mills covers are depictions of the practices of sodomites in illuminated Bibles; motifs of gender transformation and sex change as envisioned by medieval artists and commentators on Ovid; sexual relations in religious houses and other enclosed spaces; and the applicability of modern categories such as "transgender," "butch" and "femme," or "sexual orientation" to medieval culture."--Publisher's description.

Univ of Chicago Pr, Attn: John Kessler C/O Chicago Distribution Center 11030 Langley Ave, Chicago, IL, USA, 60628

9780226169262

Europa

Art, Medieval-- Europe.

Literature, Medieval-- History and criticism.

Sodomy-- Europe.

Sodomy in art.

Sodomy in literature.

Vision in literature.

Homosexuality-- history.

Sexual Behavior-- history.

15.70 history of Europe.

ART-- History-- Medieval.

Art, Medieval.

Buchmalerei

Geschlechtsidentität

Kunst

Literatur

Literature, Medieval.

Sodomie

Sodomie

Sodomy in art.

Sodomy in literature.

Sodomy.

Vision in literature.

Europe.

Europe.

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