(Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. These blurred boundaries allow readers to glimpse alternative, even homoerotic, readings. Burgwinkle, Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 10501230. What emerges from these readings, however, is that even the most homophobic, masculinist and normative texts of the period demonstrate an inability or unwillingness to separate the sodomitical from the orthodox. Most texts of the period denounce sodomy and use accusations of sodomitical practice as a way of maintaining a sacrificial climate in which masculine identity is set in opposition to the stigmatised other, for example the foreign, the feminine, and the heretical. Burgwinkle illustrates how 'sodomy' becomes a problematic feature of narratives of romance and knighthood. William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the centuries that gave us the Plantagenet court of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, courtly love, and Arthurian lore. Writing the self: Alain de Lille's De planctu naturae. Pelagic, in which homosexuality as sodomy is dictated a practice of foreign lands, Arabic to be precise. From poet German Roswitha of Gandersheim/Hrotsvitha there exist the Passio S. Queering the Celts: men who don't marry in Marie de France One of the earliest documented mentions of medieval sodomy comes from the 10th century. Making Perceval: double-binding and sieges perilleux Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 10501230 (review) Miyashiro, Adam.
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