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BC MS 7/31
Investigate glimpses of LGBTQ+ narratives from the Middle Ages within the holdings of Cultural Collections. This spotlight traverses medieval manuscripts, stories, poetry and the lives of saints and historical figures.
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CC.5705 [1]
LGBTQ+ internship
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LGBTQ+ internship
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Bennett, Judith, ‘‘Lesbian-Like’ and the Social History of Lesbianisms’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 9 (2000), 1-24.

Bloch, Howard, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).

Boyd, David, ‘Sodomy, Misogyny, and Displacement: Occluding Queer Desire in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, Arthuriana, 8 (1998), 77-113.

Burger, Glenn, Kruger, Steven, ‘Introduction’, in Queering the Middle Ages, ed. by Glenn Burger, Steven Kruger (Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

Camille, Michael, ‘‘For Our Devotion and Pleasure’: The Sexual Objects of Jean, Duc de Berry’, Art History, 24 (2003), 169-194.

Halperin, David, How to Do the History of Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, ed. by Vern Bullough, James Brundage (New York: Garland, 1996).

Klosowska, Anna, Queer Love in the Middle Ages (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Myers, Jeffrey Rayner, ‘Chaucer's Pardoner as Female Eunuch’, Studia Neophilologica, 72 (2000), 54-62.

Ogden, Amy, ‘St Eufrosine’s Invitation to Gender Transgression’, Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, (2021), 201-222.

Premodern Sexualities, ed. by Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero (New York: Routledge, 1996).

Sexon, Sophie, ‘Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds: A Non-Binary Interpretation of Christ’s Body in Late Medieval Imagery’, Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, (2021), 133-154.

Spencer-Hall, Alicia, Gutt, Blake, ‘Introduction’ in Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography, ed. by Alicia Spencer-Hall, Blake Gutt (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021), 11-40. 

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