Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies
- Author / Editor
- Schultz, James A.
Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies
- Published
- Journal of the History of Sexuality 15.1 (2006): 14-29.
- Description
- Schultz critiques uses of "heterosexual" as a term and as an ahistorical concept in queer studies of medieval literature. Chaucerian critics (and others) use the term in ways that "distort the very object" of their studies, "thwart" history, and project modern sensibilities "backward" on the past. "Heterosexual" is as much a recent concept as is "homosexual."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.