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Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain
Scholarly essays on sexual identities, fantasies, and expressions in medieval British literature including Chaucer, Gower, and Malory.
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Scholarly essays on sexual identities, fantasies, and expressions in medieval British literature including Chaucer, Gower, and Malory.
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"It is often said that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently, and perhaps no type of 'doing' is more fascinating than sexual desires and behaviours. Our modern view of medieval sexuality is characterised by a polarising dichotomy between the swooning love-struck knights and ladies of romance on one hand, and the darkly imagined and misogyny of an unenlightened 'medieval' sexuality on the other. British medieval sexual culture also exhibits such dualities through the infl...
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Sexual content
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Central scholarly analysis of sexual desires, behaviors, erotic frisson, and subject positions in medieval texts.
Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Explores non-normative sexual identities and grey areas beyond virgin/whore or sinner/saint binaries.
Religious content
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Recurring discussion of sinner/saint and virgin/whore paradigms in medieval sexual culture.
Magic & witchcraft
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References to alchemical treatises as part of source material.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Analysis of cultural and social constructions of sexuality and gender roles.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Discusses misogyny, defiler/protector dynamics, and sexual coercion themes in medieval literature.
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