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

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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 contr...
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  • 29 July 2021
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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 collection questions the hypothesis that distinct cultures treated sexuality and the “other” differently. The volume initiates the conversation around queerness and sexuality on these trade routes, and problematizes the differences between various Mediterranean cultures in order to argue that through both queerness and sexuality, neighboring civilizations had access to, and knowledge of, common shared experiences.

Contributors are Sahar Amer, Israel Burshatin, Robert L.A. Clark, Denise K. Filos, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Edmund Hayes, Gregory S. Hutcheson, Vicente Lledó-Guillem, Leyla Rouhi, and Robert S. Sturges.
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Price: $126.00
Pages: 250
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date: 29 July 2021
ISBN: 9789004315150
Format: Hardcover
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Felipe E. Rojas, Ph.D. (2014), University of Chicago, is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at West Liberty University. His interest include Medieval and Golden Age Spanish literature, queer and gay studies, and mythology (specifically the figure of Ganymede).
Peter E. Thompson, Ph.D. (1999), Penn State University, is an Associate Professor at Queen’s University. He has written extensively on Juan Rana, the alias of Cosme Pérez, a popular actor between the years 1617 and 1672 (Spanish Golden Age).