Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture.
- Author / Editor
- Linkinen, Tom.
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