Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fiction of the Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Rollo, David.
Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fiction of the Middle Ages
- Published
- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Physical Description
- vii, 250 pp.
- Description
- Explores the relationship between textuality and sexuality in various texts, including Martianus Capella's "De nuptiis philologiae et mercurii," Jean de Meun's "Roman de la rose," and PardT, particularly the Pardoner's invitation to the Host to kiss his relics. Chaucer's Pardoner is a figurative hermaphrodite who resists gendered and sexual categorizations, comparable with Bel Acueil of "Roman de la rose" and sharing in a degree of creative and poetic freedom increasingly associated in literature with the hermaphrodite.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and LIterary Relations