Queering the Middle Ages

G. Burger, S. Kruger

Contents: Queering Ovidian myth: bestiality and desire in Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea : Marilynn Desmond and Pamela Sheingorn -- Sodomy's mark: Alan of Lille, Jean de Meun, and the medieval theory of authorship : Susan Schibanoff -- The pose of the queer: Dante's gaze, Brunetto Latini's body : Michael Camille -- Response. Presidential improprieties and medieval categories: the absurdity of heterosexuality : Karma Lochrie -- The sodomitic moor: queerness in the narrative of Reconquista : Gregory S. Hutcheson -- Chaste subjects: gender, heroism, and desire in the grail quest : Peggy McCracken -- The king's boyfriend: Froissart's political theater of 1326 : Claire Sponsler -- Response. "Just like a woman": queer history, womanizing the body, and the boys in Arnaud's band : Francesca Canadé Sautman --Translating the foreskin : Kathleen Biddick -- Shameful pleasures: up close and dirty with Chaucer, flesh, and the word : Glenn Burger -- Ecce homo : Garrett P. J. Epp -- Medieval/postmodern: HIV/AIDS and the temporality of crisis : Steven F. Kruger -- Response. Return of the repressed: the sequel : Larry Scanlon.