Between Medieval Men: Male Friendship and Desire in Early Medieval English Literature (Hardcover)
Saturday, 09. January 2010. 13:17 by admin
…demonstrates qualities of scrupulous scholarship and careful thinking about difficult historical problems together with an alert sense of literary implications A.S.G Edwards, Times Literary Supplement
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Between Medieval Men argues for the importance of synoptically examining the whole range of same-sex relations in the Anglo-Saxon period, revisiting well-known texts and issues (as well as material often considered marginal) from a radically different perspective. The introductory chapters first lay out the premises underlying the book and its critical context, then emphasise the need to avoid modern cultural assumptions about both male-female and male-male relationships, and underline the paramount place of homosocial bonds in Old English literature. Part II then investigates the construction of and attitudes to same-sex acts and identities in ethnographic, penitential, and theological texts, ranging widely throughout the Old (more…)
