Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder.(Book review)

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Sex and Sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder. Ed. by CAROL BRAUN PASTERNACK AND LISA M. WESTON. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 277) Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2004. xlix + 284 pp. $40; 36 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-86698-320-4.

As well as gender and sexuality, the essays in this volume show a recurrent interest in issues such as lexical meaning and the relation between the discourses of the past and present. The editors' introduction (pp. xix-xlix) reviews earlier work on medieval ...

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