Queering the Medieval Mediterranean: Transcultural Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity, and Culture

by and Peter E. Thompson, Edited by Felipe E. Rojas, West Liberty University

In ten essays authored by an international team of scholars, this volume explores queer readings of Western and Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Northern Africa, Islam and Arabic traditions. The contributors enter into a dialogue, comparing cases from opposite sides of the Mediterranean, in order to analyze the forgotten exchange of sexualities that was brought forth through the Mediterranean and its bordering landmasses during the Middle Ages.
This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004315152
• ISBN13: 9789004315150
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 260 Pages