Aspetti della marginalità sessuale in alcuni romanzi medievali
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Anna Maria Babbi
Sommario
In medieval French Literature there are many more or less veiled references to the hero’s homosexuality. One of the best known, explicit this time, is certainly that of Lanval of Marie de France. This fact is in line with a tradition in the Celtic word, which, for example, according to the attestation of Diodorus Siculus, considered the Celts notoriously attracted to the same sex. It should be emphasized that for most of the situations the fact of accusing of homosexuality as a negative aspect of the personality is a function of something else, for example as the justification of a lack of attention for the queen (Lanval) or to induce Lavinia to refuse the love of Aeneas (Roman d’Eneas). And, among all the texts of medieval French literature dealing with sexual marginality, in this case homosexuality, the anonymous Roman d’Eneas (c. 1165) is undoubtely one of the most significant. But allusions on the same topic can be found in the episode of the visit to the Sibilla in the Guerrin Meschino, an Italian novel written by Andrea da Barberino (c. 1410), as well as in its French translation by Jean de Rochemeure.
Sommario
In medieval French Literature there are many more or less veiled references to the hero’s homosexuality. One of the best known, explicit this time, is certainly that of Lanval of Marie de France. This fact is in line with a tradition in the Celtic word, which, for example, according to the attestation of Diodorus Siculus, considered the Celts notoriously attracted to the same sex. It should be emphasized that for most of the situations the fact of accusing of homosexuality as a negative aspect of the personality is a function of something else, for example as the justification of a lack of attention for the queen (Lanval) or to induce Lavinia to refuse the love of Aeneas (Roman d’Eneas). And, among all the texts of medieval French literature dealing with sexual marginality, in this case homosexuality, the anonymous Roman d’Eneas (c. 1165) is undoubtely one of the most significant. But allusions on the same topic can be found in the episode of the visit to the Sibilla in the Guerrin Meschino, an Italian novel written by Andrea da Barberino (c. 1410), as well as in its French translation by Jean de Rochemeure.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Invisible biographies 1
- Magnum oculum et parvum os 11
- Vida quotidiana i marginalitat femenina a la València del segle XV 25
- Brujas y conversas 41
- Violence against women in Pere Joan Porcar’s Dietari (16th–17th centuries) 57
- Women and carnal abstinence 73
- Humble but courageous 91
- Bandolers, execucions i cobles populars, arran d’uns fets ocorreguts a la Conca d’Òdena (1573) 105
- Els processos criminals del segle XVI, espill lingüístic de la vida social 129
- Anatomy of a murder 155
- Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa 171
- The mystery of obedience 183
- The treatment of homosexuality in Valencian diaristic literature throughout the late 15th and early 16th centuries 193
- The inquisition against Friar Miquel de Morales, Trinitarian of Sant Bernat Monastery in Alzira (1574) 211
- Aspetti della marginalità sessuale in alcuni romanzi medievali 225
- Pain and faith 233
- Als marges de la història de l’art 243
- Nota sobre Hernando Cabrera, carceller de la Inquisició de València (1515–1541) 255
- Uses of TEI-XML for editions of ancient texts dealing with marginal and queer lives 261
- Index 275
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Invisible biographies 1
- Magnum oculum et parvum os 11
- Vida quotidiana i marginalitat femenina a la València del segle XV 25
- Brujas y conversas 41
- Violence against women in Pere Joan Porcar’s Dietari (16th–17th centuries) 57
- Women and carnal abstinence 73
- Humble but courageous 91
- Bandolers, execucions i cobles populars, arran d’uns fets ocorreguts a la Conca d’Òdena (1573) 105
- Els processos criminals del segle XVI, espill lingüístic de la vida social 129
- Anatomy of a murder 155
- Carlo Gesualdo, principe di Venosa 171
- The mystery of obedience 183
- The treatment of homosexuality in Valencian diaristic literature throughout the late 15th and early 16th centuries 193
- The inquisition against Friar Miquel de Morales, Trinitarian of Sant Bernat Monastery in Alzira (1574) 211
- Aspetti della marginalità sessuale in alcuni romanzi medievali 225
- Pain and faith 233
- Als marges de la història de l’art 243
- Nota sobre Hernando Cabrera, carceller de la Inquisició de València (1515–1541) 255
- Uses of TEI-XML for editions of ancient texts dealing with marginal and queer lives 261
- Index 275
