William E. Burgwinkle, Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230.(Book Review)

From: Medium Aevum | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Zeikowitz, Richard E. | Copyright information

William E. Burgwinkle, Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). xii + 298 pp. ISBN 0-521-83968-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]/$75.00.

William E. Burgwinkle offers an excellent, probing study of significant literary and monastic texts composed in England and France from the mid-eleventh century to the early thirteenth century. Drawing on contemporary theorists, such as Foucault, Lacan, an...

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