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Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in `Cleanness` and Its Contexts Elizabeth B. Keiser
Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in `Cleanness` and Its Contexts
Elizabeth B. Keiser
This study of "Cleanness" and its medieval contexts shows how the 14th century religious poem legitimates erotic pleasures as natural from procreative justification. It explains how the poem sacrilized heterosexual erotic play while condemning male homosexual love as profane.
308 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 21, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780300069235 |
| Publishers | Yale University Press |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 24 mm · 675 g |
| Language | English |