| Queering the Medieval Mediterranean: Transcultural Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity, and Culture Contributor(s): Rojas, Felipe, Thompson, Peter E. |
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ISBN: 9004315152 ISBN-13: 9789004315150 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - History | Europe - Renaissance - History | Social History |
| Physical Information: 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Lled -Guillem, Leyla Rouhi, and Robert S. Sturges. |