Fetishising the Past: "Troilus and Criseyde," Sadomasochism, and the Historophilia of Modern BDSM.
- Author / Editor
- Francis, Kersti.
Fetishising the Past: "Troilus and Criseyde," Sadomasochism, and the Historophilia of Modern BDSM.
- Published
- Christopher Vaccaro, ed. Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 292-324; 6 b&w illus.
- Description
- Assesses "iterations of sadomasochistic historophilia"--a term coined term here--in Chaucer's "use of Trojan and Theban history" in TC, examining the "role of Statius's "Thebaid," the place of Criseyde's collar-like Theban brooch, and the narrator's continual linking of history to torment for the purposes of pleasure." Also assesses examples of historophiliac medievalism in modern BDSM art, visual and literary.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde