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Premodern Ruling Sexualities Gabrielle Storey

Premodern Ruling Sexualities By Gabrielle Storey

Premodern Ruling Sexualities by Gabrielle Storey


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This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities of rulers, and those who were ruled by their sexualities and how these case studies might contribute to our broader knowledge of premodern gender and sexualities.

Premodern Ruling Sexualities Summary

Premodern Ruling Sexualities: Representation, Identity, and Power by Gabrielle Storey

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader understanding of their sexualities. It considers the methodologies and motivations of premodern writers and rulers when fashioning royal and elite sexualities and offers new analyses of an array of texts and artwork from across Europe and the wider Mediterranean.

About Gabrielle Storey

Gabrielle Storey is a historian of twelfth- and thirteenth-century queenship, gender, and sexuality and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Zita Eva Rohr is a historian of the late-medieval and early modern period, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Chevalier in the Ordre des palmes academiques

Table of Contents

Introduction: Premodern ruling sexualities: representation, identity, and power - Gabrielle Storey and Zita Eva Rohr

Part I Scandal, perception, and representation
1 And though she made use of three openings...: How and why to sexualise a late antique empress - Alexander Thies
2 Eadwigs coronation scandal: sexuality, rhetoric and the vulnerability of reputation - Matthew Firth
3 Scandal, romance, political affairs. Walter Maps Portuguese King and Anglo-Flemish relations in the eleventh century - Fabrizio De Falco
4 Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer: lovers or allies? - Michael Evans
5 Isabel of Castile and her images: viewing sex, scandal, and sanctity in fifteenth-century Spain - Jessica Weiss

Part II Gender, morality, and desire
6 Gender, moral, and sexual warfare in the Roman de Silence - Kathleen M. Blumreich
7 Muslim caliphs and homosexuality: al- Amin (787- 813) and al-Hakam II (915-976). Two men in pursuit of hub al-walad - Fatima Rhorchi
8 The Tour de Nesle affair: succession and sexuality in fourteenth-century France - Emily Lalande
9 Chaste kings and unsuitable women: sex, interfaith relations, and sovereignty in the Castigos of Sancho IV of Castile - David Cantor-Echols
10 Sine communi favore the intersection of power, perception, and sexual morality in the careers of Piers Gaveston and the royal favourites of fourteenth-century England - Audrey Covert

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NGR9781526175847
9781526175847
1526175843
Premodern Ruling Sexualities: Representation, Identity, and Power by Gabrielle Storey
New
Hardback
Manchester University Press
2024-06-25
272
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