"Affined to love the Moor": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I Queering Iberia
6. Saint Pe1agius, Ephebe and Martyr 23
7. "Affined to love the Moor": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer 48
8. Queer Representation in the Arcipreste de Talavera, or The Maldezir de mugeres Is a Drag 73
9. II Iberian Masculinities
10. "Tanquam effeminatum": Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian Crusade 107
11. The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de buen amor 130
12. Male Bonding as Cultural Construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel Homosocial Friendship in Medieval Iberia 157
13. III Sources of Sodom
14. The Poets of Sodom 195
15. Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna 222
16. Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual "Good Love" 250
17. IV Normativity and Nationhood
18. Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual Other in Francese Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les dones 277
19. "iA tierra, puto!": Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy 291
20. "Tened por espejo su fin" Mapping Gender and Sex in Fifteenthand Sixteenth-Century Spain 325
21. V The Body and the State
22. Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina 369
23. From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gendering the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain 394
24. Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain 420
25. Index 457
26. Notes on the Contributors 475