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Medieval writings on sex between men : Peter Damian's The book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's The plaint of nature
- Title
- Medieval writings on sex between men : Peter Damian's The book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's The plaint of nature / introduced and translated from the Latin by David Rollo.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
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- Description
- 184 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response. What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifying and excoriating male same-sex relations, yet does so in a text showing an exuberant and unabashed orientation towards metaphorical language? Is the author in question rhetorically perpetrating precisely the so-called affront to nature he grammatically denounces? Twelfth-century poet Alain de Lille enacts an ambiguously enigmatic response"--
- Series Statement
- Explorations in medieval culture ; volume 19
- Uniform Title
- Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 19.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Early works.
- Literary criticism.
- Informational works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-1264
- ISBN
- 9789004429659
- 9004429654
- LCCN
- 2021062481
- 40031081185
- OCLC
- 1291574371
- Title
- Medieval writings on sex between men : Peter Damian's The book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's The plaint of nature / introduced and translated from the Latin by David Rollo.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Explorations in medieval culture ; volume 19Explorations in medieval culture ; v. 19.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Added Author
- Rollo, David, translator.Peter Damian, Saint, 1007?-1072. Liber Gomorrhianus. English. 2022.Alanus, de Insulis, -1202. De planctu naturae. English.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rollo, David. Medieval writings on sex between men Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022] 9789004507326 (DLC) 2021062482
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40031081185
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-1264