Tom Linkinen Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture (Paperback)

Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English CultureTom LinkinenLabel: RoutledgeDescription: This volume investigates the state of same-sex relations in later medieval England drawing on a remarkably rich array of primary sources from the period that include legal documents artworks theological treatises and poetry. Tom Linkinen uses those sources to build a framework of medieval condemnations of same-sex intimacy and desire and then shows how same-sex sexuality reflected - and was inflected by - gender hierarchies approaches to crime and the conspicuous silence on the matter in the legal systems of the period.