Constructing Medieval Sexuality

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Edited by Karma Lochrie, Peggy McCracken and James A. Schultz

University of Minnesota Press

Due/Published December 1997, 232 pages, paper

ISBN 0816628297

Medieval sexuality informed by current theories of sexuality and gender. This collection brings together essays from various disciplinary perspectives to consider how the Middle Ages defined, regulated, and represented sexual proctices and desires. Always considering sexuality in relation to gender, the body, and identity, theses essays explore medieval sexuality as a historical construction produced by and embedded in the cultures and institutions of that period. Topics include the medieval understanding of sodomy, the historical construction of heterosexuality, and the intersections of sexuality with race, gneder, and religion.
Contributors: E. Jane Burns, Joan Cadden, Michael Camille, Dyan Elliot, Louise O. Fradenburg, Mark D. Jordan, Steven Kruger.