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Between medieval men male friendship and desire in early medieval English literature

Title
Between medieval men [electronic resource] : male friendship and desire in early medieval English literature / David Clark.
Author
Clark, David, 1977-
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description
1 online resource (xi, 229 p.)
Uniform Title
Between medieval men (Online)
Alternative Title
Between medieval men (Online)
Subject
  • English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
  • Male friendship in literature
  • Desire in literature
  • Eroticism in literature
  • Men in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-226) and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
A fine romance? Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, and The Husband's Message -- Germanic pederasty: the evidence of the classical ethnographers -- Attitudes to same-sex activity in Anglo-Saxon England: earg, the Penitentials, and OE bœdling -- The changing face of Sodom, part I: the Latin tradition -- The changing face of Sodom, part II: the vernacular tradition -- Destructive desire: sexual themes and same-sex relations in Genesis A -- Heroic desire? Male relations in Beowulf, The battle of Maldon, and The dream of the rood -- Monastic sexuality and same-sex procreation in The phoenix -- Saintly desire? Same-sex relations in Ælfric's Lives of saints -- Unorthodox desire: the anonymous Life of Europhrosyne and the Colloquies of Ælfric Bata
LCCN
2008036339
OCLC
ssj0000085553
Author
Clark, David, 1977-
Title
Between medieval men [electronic resource] : male friendship and desire in early medieval English literature / David Clark.
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-226) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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