Presumptive Sodomy and Its Exclusions
- Author / Editor
- Lochrie, Karma.
Presumptive Sodomy and Its Exclusions
- Published
- Textual Practice 13: 295-313, 1999.
- Description
- Argues that sodomy in medieval literature must be understood as an "unspecified plurality of acts and intentions," which includes women as well as men. Female sodomy occupies the "silent place in the discourse" that must be acknowledged in modern discussion to understand more fully the range and nuances of medieval gender anxieties and to avoid complicity with medieval misogyny. Lochrie considers sodomy in ParsT, Pauline tradition, theological commentary, and Alan of Lille.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Parson and His Tale.