Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts

1. Introduction: Narrating Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Texts
Jennifer N. Brown, Marla Segol

2. The Whore as Imago Dei: Being and Abjection in Hrotsvit’s Rewriting of Thais
Helene Scheck

3. Alan of Lille on the Little Bits that Make a Difference
Valerie Allen

4. Queer Hermeneutics and Redemption in the Cosmology of the Zohar

Marla Segol

5. Born Under the Sign of Venus: Phantasmatic Desire and the Woman-Who-Never-Was in the Libro De Buen Amor

Nicholas Ealy

6. The Double Bind of Chivalric Sexuality in the Late-Medieval English Romance
Ilan Mitchell-Smith

7. Divine Orgasm and Self-Blazoning: The Fragmented Body of the Female Medieval Visionary
Michelle M. Sauer

8. Cosmology, Sexuality, and Music in Robert Henryson’s “Orpheus and Eurydice”
Jennifer N. Brown

9. Cresseid’s Dignity: Cosmology and Sexuality in Henryson’s “Testament”
Holly Crocker

Keywords: History, History of Medieval Europe, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Medieval Literature, Literature, general, Gender Studies