Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

by Josiah Blackmore

Book Overview

Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period between the tenth and the sixteenth centuries when political hegemony in the region passed from Muslim to Christian hands.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822323494
• ISBN13: 9780822323495
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 8.8"