Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture.

Author / Editor
Linkinen, Tom.

Title
Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture.

Published
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2015.

Physical Description
334 pp.; illus.

Series
Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

Description
Includes a chapter, "Sharing Laughter" (pp. 205-32), that identifies examples from late medieval art and literature where laughter constitutes "moral censorship" of same-sex desire or actions, then focuses on the Pardoner; his relation with the Summoner in GP; and the grotesquery, mockery, and laughter generated by his offer of his relics at the end of PardT.

Alternative Title
Sharing Laughter.

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale