Tidig historia: ca 500 – ca 1450/1500
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A re-examination of medieval attitudes towards gender and sexuality from postmodern theoretical perspectives. Thirteen contributions examine homosexuality in a range of literary …
An exhilarating journey across a distant literary landscape, this book takes us to those places described, evoked, or invented in Beowulf and the sagas of Iceland. Chronicling …
In Medieval Identity Machines, Jeffrey J. Cohen examines the messiness, permeability, and perversity of medieval bodies, arguing that human identity always exceeds the limits of …
A groundbreaking examination of sexuality in the Middle Ages.This collection is the first to be devoted entirely to medieval sexuality informed by current theories of sexuality and …
A timely rethinking of the archetypal story of Noah, the great flood, and who was left behind as the waters rose Most people know the story of Noah from a children’s bible or a …
The Self-Made Map argues that during the Renaissance in France a "new cartographic impulse" affected both the "graphic and imaginary forms of literature." In this wide-ranging and …
Exposes complex intersections between genders and other identities in medieval cultures.Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the …