Medieval Writings on Sex Between Men
Medieval Writings on Sex Between Men : Peter Damian’s The Book of Gomorrah and Alain De Lille’s The Plaint of Nature
by David Rollo
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004429654 | 195 Pages | True PDF | 2.09 MB
by David Rollo
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9004429654 | 195 Pages | True PDF | 2.09 MB
David Rollo translates, for the first time together, Peter Damian's The Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's The Plaint of Nature, the most famous medieval writings on male same-sex relations. He also provides critical commentaries to situate both in historical and cultural context.
What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response.
What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifying and excoriating male same-sex relations, yet does so in a text showing an exuberant and unabashed orientation towards metaphorical language? Is the author in question rhetorically perpetrating precisely the so-called affront to nature he grammatically denounces? Twelfth-century poet Alain de Lille enacts an ambiguously enigmatic response.