Medieval Futurity (New Queer Medievalisms)

✍ Scribed by Christopher Michael Rogers, Will / Roman

• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 237
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction: Clearly, Queerly: Toward a Medieval Queer Futurity
Chapter 1. Sexual Ethics in the Medieval Grammar Classroom
Chapter 2. Failed Orientations: The Spaces of Sexual Histories and Failures
Chapter 3. Guillaume de Lorris’s Unmaking of the Self: The Dreamer’s Queer Failures
Chapter 4. Sodom, Bretons, and Ill-Defined Borders: Questing for Queerness with the Knight of the Tower
Chapter 5. Queer Time for Heroes in the Roman d’Enés and the Roman de Troie
Chapter 6. The Gender Genealogy of St. Mary of Egypt
Chapter 7. “Ycrammed ful of cloutes and of bones”: Chaucer’s Queer Cavities
Chapter 8. Resisting Sex and Species in the Squire’s Tale
Epilogue: Opening Up Queerness
Chapter 9. Queer Time and Lesbian Temporality in Medieval Women’s Encounters with the Side Wound
Notes on Contributors
Index