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Queering the Medieval Mediterranean: Transcultural Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity, and Culture
Series: - The Medieval Mediterranean, Volume: 121
In ten essays authored by an international team of scholars, this volume explores queer readings of Western and Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa, Islam and Arabic traditions. The contributors enter into a dialogue, comparing cases from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, in order to analyze the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses during the Middle Ages.
This collection questions the hypothesis that distinct cultures treated sexuality and the “other” differently. The volume initiates the conversation around queerness and sexuality on these trade routes, and problematizes the differences between various Mediterranean cultures in order to argue that through both queerness and sexuality, neighboring civilizations had access to, and knowledge of, common shared experiences.
Contributors are Sahar Amer, Israel Burshatin, Robert L.A. Clark, Denise K. Filos, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Edmund Hayes, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Leyla Rouhi, and Robert S. Sturges.
This collection questions the hypothesis that distinct cultures treated sexuality and the “other” differently. The volume initiates the conversation around queerness and sexuality on these trade routes, and problematizes the differences between various Mediterranean cultures in order to argue that through both queerness and sexuality, neighboring civilizations had access to, and knowledge of, common shared experiences.
Contributors are Sahar Amer, Israel Burshatin, Robert L.A. Clark, Denise K. Filos, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Edmund Hayes, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Leyla Rouhi, and Robert S. Sturges.
Felipe E. Rojas, Ph.D. (2014), University of Chicago, is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at West Liberty University. His interest include Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature, queer and gay studies, and mythology (specifically the figure of Ganymede).
Peter E. Thompson, Ph.D. (1999), Penn State University, is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University. He has written extensively on Juan Rana, the alias of Cosme Pérez, a popular actor between the years 1617 and 1672 (Spanish Golden Age).
Peter E. Thompson, Ph.D. (1999), Penn State University, is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University. He has written extensively on Juan Rana, the alias of Cosme Pérez, a popular actor between the years 1617 and 1672 (Spanish Golden Age).
Notes on Contributors
Introduction The Transcultural Medieval Mediterranean
Felipe E. Rojas and Peter E. Thompson
part 1
Conquests
1 Anomalous al-Andalus Time, Space, Desire
Denise K. Filios
2 The Masculine Body in the Mediterranean Queering the Other in El Monserrate and Tirant lo Blanc
Vicente Lledó-Guillem
part 2
Femininities
3 Bad Girls and Gender Trouble in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean
Sahar Amer
4 Going Between Bodies, Minds, and Spaces The Alcahueta as the Queer Third Party
Leyla Rouhi
part 3
Literatures
5 Perversion and Subversion Mother Guidance and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl’s Shadow Play
Edmund Hayes
6 Queer Names and Experiences in Old French and Romance Literatures
Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
part 4
Captives
7 Beaucaire, “Cartage,” Torelore The Imaginary Mediterranean’s Queer Carnival in Aucassin et Nicolette
Robert S. Sturges
8 “Amor de voluntad”/“Love freely given” Homonormativity in Alfonso X, el Sabio’s Legislation on Captives
Israel Burshatin
part 5
Encounters
9 Spain’s Pecado Sodomítico and Its Mediterranean Intertextualities
Gregory S. Hutcheson
10 At the Crossroads of Intercultural Desire in the Levant Cultural Notes from the Bathhouse
Robert L.A. Clark
Index
Introduction The Transcultural Medieval Mediterranean
Felipe E. Rojas and Peter E. Thompson
part 1
Conquests
1 Anomalous al-Andalus Time, Space, Desire
Denise K. Filios
2 The Masculine Body in the Mediterranean Queering the Other in El Monserrate and Tirant lo Blanc
Vicente Lledó-Guillem
part 2
Femininities
3 Bad Girls and Gender Trouble in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean
Sahar Amer
4 Going Between Bodies, Minds, and Spaces The Alcahueta as the Queer Third Party
Leyla Rouhi
part 3
Literatures
5 Perversion and Subversion Mother Guidance and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl’s Shadow Play
Edmund Hayes
6 Queer Names and Experiences in Old French and Romance Literatures
Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
part 4
Captives
7 Beaucaire, “Cartage,” Torelore The Imaginary Mediterranean’s Queer Carnival in Aucassin et Nicolette
Robert S. Sturges
8 “Amor de voluntad”/“Love freely given” Homonormativity in Alfonso X, el Sabio’s Legislation on Captives
Israel Burshatin
part 5
Encounters
9 Spain’s Pecado Sodomítico and Its Mediterranean Intertextualities
Gregory S. Hutcheson
10 At the Crossroads of Intercultural Desire in the Levant Cultural Notes from the Bathhouse
Robert L.A. Clark
Index
All interested in queer studies within the medieval and early modern period, and anyone concerned with the exchange of sexualities throughout the Mediterranean during that time.