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Book SynopsisOffers a collection of essays exploring ideologies and discourses that center on sexual otherness in medieval Iberian cultures, Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers that comprise the mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia.
Trade Review“An outstanding collection. The pieces are sharp, bold, well argued, and witty; the whole project is—above all—crucial to the much-needed expansion of the fields of Hispanic, postcolonial, and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender studies.”—Carolyn Dinshaw, author of
Chaucer’s Sexual Poetics and
Getting Medieval“In this provocative volume, an impressive collection of scholars, undaunted by a tradition of more solemn readings, train the powerful double lens of cultural and sexual difference on the medieval and early modern Iberian world, which turns out to be much more akin to our own than we might have suspected.”—Mary Gaylord, Harvard University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction / Gregory S. Hutcheson and Josiah Blackmore 1
I. Queering Iberia
Saint Pelagius, Ephebe and Martyr / Mark D. Jordan 23
"Affined to love the Moor": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the
Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer / Benjamin Liu 48
Queer Representation in the
Arçipreste de Talavera, or, The
Maldezir de mugeres Is a Drag / Catherine Brown 73
II. Iberian Masculinities
"Tanquam effeminatum": Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian Crusade / Sara Lipton 107
The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the
Libro de buen amor / Louise O. Vasvári 130
Male Bonding as Cultural Construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel: Homosocial Friendship in Medieval Iberia / Roberto J. González-Casanovas 157
III. Sources of Sodom
The Poets of Sodom / Josiah Blackmore 195
Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna / Gregory S. Hutcheson 222
Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual "Good Love" / Daniel Eisenberg 250
IV. Normativity and Nationhood
Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual Other in Francesc Eiximenis's
Lo llibre de les dones / Michael Soloman 277
"!A tierra, puto!": Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy / Barbara Weissberger 291
"Tened por espejo su fin": Mapping Gender and Sex in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain / Linde M. Brocato 325
V. The Body and the State
Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in
Celestina / E. Michael Gerli 369
From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gender the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry 394
Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 420
Index 457
Contributors 475
