Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: Clearly, Queerly: Toward a Medieval Queer Futurity 1
5. Part I: Queer Latinities: Authorizing Same-Sex Desire
6. Chapter 1. Sexual Ethics in the Medieval Grammar Classroom 11
7. Chapter 2. Failed Orientations: The Spaces of Sexual Histories and Failures 39
8. Part II: French Kisses: Queer Romance
9. Chapter 3. Guillaume de Lorris’s Unmaking of the Self: The Dreamer’s Queer Failures 61
10. Chapter 4. Sodom, Bretons, and Ill-Defined Borders: Questing for Queerness with the Knight of the Tower 83
11. Chapter 5. Queer Time for Heroes in the Roman d’Enés and the Roman de Troie 107
12. Part III: Insular Queerness: English and the Nonnormative
13. Chapter 6. The Gender Genealogy of St. Mary of Egypt 131
14. Chapter 7. “Ycrammed ful of cloutes and of bones”: Chaucer’s Queer Cavities 153
15. Chapter 8. Resisting Sex and Species in the Squire’s Tale 181
16. Epilogue: Opening Up Queerness
17. Chapter 9. Queer Time and Lesbian Temporality in Medieval Women’s Encounters with the Side Wound 199
18. Notes on Contributors 221
19. Index 225