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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-r eviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Patronage, and Piety Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly Writers edited by Barbara Stevenson and The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Cynthia Ho Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics by Gregory B. Stone Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages Presence and Presentation: Women in the Chinese by Laurel Amtower Literati Tradition edited by Sherry J. Mou Robes and Honor: The Medieval World of Investiture The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: edited by Stewart Gordon Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France Representing Rape in Medieval and Early by Constant J. Mews Modern Literature edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Understanding Scholastic Thought Christine M. Rose with Foucault Same Sex Love and Desire among Women in the by Philipp W. Rosemann Middle Ages For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de edited by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Burgh Pamela Sheingorn by Frances A. Underhill Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Ocular Desires Middle Ages by Suzannah Biernoff edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Listen, Daughter: The Speculum Virginum and Jane Weisl the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon edited by Constant J. Mews England by Mary Dockray-Miller Science, the Singular, and the Question of Theology Listening to Heloise: The Voice of a Twelfth- by Richard A. Lee, Jr. Century Woman edited by Bonnie Wheeler Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance The Postcolonial Middle Ages edited by Thelma S. Fenster and Clare A. edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Lees Chaucer’s Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies Malory’s Morte D’Arthur: Remaking of Discourse Arthurian Tradition by Robert S. Sturges by Catherine Batt The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Religious Literature Southern Low Countries edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Warren A. Suydam Popular Piety and Art in the Late Middle Ages: Charlemagne’s Mustache: And Other Cultural Image Worship and Idolatry in England Clusters of a Dark Age 1350–1500 by Paul Edward Dutton by Kathleen Kamerick Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Medieval Text and Image Literary Structure in Late Medieval England edited by Emma Campbell and Robert by Elizabeth Scala Mills Creating Community with Food and Drink in Queering Medieval Genres Merovingian Gaul by Tison Pugh by Bonnie Effros Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism Representations of Early Byzantine Empresses: by L. Michael Harrington Image and Empire The Middle Ages at Work by Anne McClanan edited by Kellie Robertson and Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Michael Uebel Objects, Texts, Images Chaucer’s Jobs edited by Désirée G. Koslin and Janet by David R. Carlson Snyder Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John by John M. Ganim Carmi Parsons Queer Love in the Middle Ages Isabel La Católica, Queen of Castile: Critical by Anna Kłosowska Essays edited by David A. Boruchoff Performing Women in the Middle Ages: Sex, Gender, and the Iberian Lyric Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male by Denise K. Filios Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century by Richard E. Zeikowitz Necessary Conjunctions: The Social Self in Medieval England Portraits of Medieval Women: Family, Marriage, by David Gary Shaw and Politics in England 1225–1350 Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages by Linda E. Mitchell edited by Kathryn Starkey and Horst Eloquent Virgins: From Thecla to Joan of Arc Wenzel by Maud Burnett McInerney Medieval Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Jeremy The Persistence of Medievalism: Narrative duQuesnay Adams, Volumes 1 and 2 Adventures in Contemporary Culture edited by Stephanie Hayes-Healy by Angela Jane Weisl False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Capetian Women Middle English Literature edited by Kathleen D. Nolan by Elizabeth Allen Joan of Arc and Spirituality Ecstatic Transformation: On the Uses of Alterity edited by Ann W. Astell and Bonnie in the Middle Ages Wheeler by Michael Uebel Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Mindful Spirit in Late Medieval Literature: Modern Cultures: New Essays Essays in Honor of Elizabeth D. Kirk edited by Lawrence Besserman edited by Bonnie Wheeler Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, edited by Jane Chance and Alfred and Other Cultural Imaginings K. Siewers edited by E. Jane Burns Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?: The Medieval England Case for St. Florent of Saumur by Frank Grady by George Beech Byzantine Dress: Representations of Secular Women, Power, and Religious Patronage in the Dress in Eighth- to Twelfth-Century Painting Middle Ages by Jennifer L. Ball by Erin L. Jordan The Laborer’s Two Bodies: Labor and the Hybridity, Identity, and Monstrosity in Medieval “Work” of the Text in Medieval Britain, Britain: On Difficult Middles 1350–1500 by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen by Kellie Robertson Medieval Go-betweens and Chaucer’s The Dogaressa of Venice, 1250–1500: Wife Pandarus and Icon by Gretchen Mieszkowski by Holly S. Hurlburt The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature Logic, Theology, and Poetry in Boethius, by Jeremy J. Citrome Abelard, and Alan of Lille: Words in the Temporal Circumstances: Form and History in Absence of Things the Canterbury Tales by Eileen C. Sweeney by Lee Patterson The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Medieval Religious Renewal Movement Writing by Patricia Ranft by Lara Farina On the Purification of Women: Churching in Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Northern France, 1100–1500 Literature by Paula M. Rieder by Sachi Shimomura Writers of the Reign of Henry II: Twelve On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Essays Middle Ages edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon by Valerie Allen Meecham-Jones Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and Lonesome Words: The Vocal Poetics of the Old the Limits of Epic Masculinity English Lament and the African-American edited by Sara S. Poor and Jana Blues Song K. Schulman by M.G. McGeachy Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Performing Piety: Musical Culture in Medieval Cinema English Nunneries edited by Lynn T. Ramey and by Anne Bagnell Yardley Tison Pugh The Flight from Desire: Augustine and Ovid to Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Chaucer Ages by Robert R. Edwards by Noah D. Guynn England and Iberia in the Middle Ages, Hildegard of Bingen’s Unknown Language: An 12th–15th Century: Cultural, Literary, and Edition, Translation, and Discussion Political Exchanges by Sarah L. Higley edited by María Bullón-Fernández Medieval Romance and the Construction of The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Heterosexuality Process by Louise M. Sylvester by Albrecht Classen Communal Discord, Child Abduction, and Rape Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in in the Later Middle Ages Medieval Literature by Jeremy Goldberg by Cary Howie Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in Cannibalism in High Medieval English the Fifteenth Century Literature edited by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea by Heather Blurton Denny-Brown The Drama of Masculinity and Medieval Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Guild Culture English Literature by Christina M. Fitzgerald by Tison Pugh Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood Sex, Scandal, and Sermon in Fourteenth- by Holly A. Crocker Century Spain: Juan Ruiz’s Libro de Buen Amor The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women by Louise M. Haywood by Jane Chance The Erotics of Consolation: Desire and Distance Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and in the Late Middle Ages Literature edited by Catherine E. Léglu and by Scott Lightsey Stephen J. Milner American Chaucers Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and by Candace Barrington Identity in the Chinese Middle Period edited by Don J. Wyatt Representing Others in Medieval Iberian Literature Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early by Michelle M. Hamilton Modern Hispanic Literature by Emily C. Francomano Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies Power, Piety, and Patronage in Late Medieval edited by Celia Chazelle and Felice Queenship: Maria de Luna Lifshitz by Nuria Silleras-Fernandez The King and the Whore: King Roderick and In the Light of Medieval Spain: Islam, the West, La Cava and the Relevance of the Past by Elizabeth Drayson edited by Simon R. Doubleday and David Coleman, foreword by Giles Langland’s Early Modern Identities Tremlett by Sarah A. Kelen Chaucerian Aesthetics Cultural Studies of the Modern by Peggy A. Knapp Middle Ages edited by Eileen A. Joy, Myra J. Seaman, Memory, Images, and the English Corpus Christi Kimberly K. Bell, and Mary K. Drama Ramsey by Theodore K. Lerud Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Strange Beauty: Ecocritical Approaches to Early Archipelago, Island, England Medieval Landscape edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen by Alfred K. Siewers Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics Political Women in the High Middle Ages by Susan Signe Morrison by Miriam Shadis Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Julian of Norwich’s Legacy: Medieval Mysticism Medieval Wales and Post-Medieval Reception edited by Ruth Kennedy and Simon edited by Sarah Salih and Denise Meecham-Jones N. Baker The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance by Mary Catherine Davidson by Seeta Chaganti The Letters of Heloise and Abelard: A Translation The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: of Their Complete Correspondence and Power, Faith, and Crusade Related Writings edited by Matthew Gabriele and Jace translated and edited by Mary Stuckey Martin McLaughlin with Bonnie Wheeler The Poems of Oswald von Wolkenstein: An English Translation of the Complete Works Women and Wealth in Late Medieval (1376/77–1445) Europe by Albrecht Classen edited by Theresa Earenfight Women and Experience in Later Medieval Visual Power and Fame in René d’Anjou, Writing: Reading the Book of Life Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker by SunHee Kim Gertz and Liz Herbert McAvoy Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog: Medieval Studies Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English and New Media Literature: Singular Fortunes by Brantley L. Bryant by J. Allan Mitchell Margaret Paston’s Piety Maintenance, Meed, and Marriage in Medieval by Joel T. Rosenthal English Literature Gender and Power in Medieval Exegesis by Kathleen E. Kennedy by Theresa Tinkle The Post-Historical Middle Ages edited by Elizabeth Scala and Sylvia Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Federico Literature by Roger A. Ladd Constructing Chaucer: Author and Autofiction in the Critical Tradition Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval by Geoffrey W. Gust Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music Queens in Stone and Silver: The Creation of a edited by C. Stephen Jaeger Visual Imagery of Queenship in Capetian France Medieval and Early Modern Devotional by Kathleen Nolan Objects in Global Perspective: Translations of the Sacred Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art edited by Elizabeth Robertson edited by Cynthia Ho, Beth A. Mulvaney, and Jennifer Jahner and John K. Downey Late Medieval Jewish Identities: Iberia and The Lesbian Premodern Beyond edited by Noreen Giffney, edited by Carmen Caballero-Navas and Michelle M. Sauer, and Esperanza Alfonso Diane Watt Outlawry in Medieval Literature Heloise and the Paraclete: by Timothy S. Jones A Twelfth-Century Women and Disability in Medieval Literature Quest (forthcoming) by Tory Vandeventer Pearman by Mary Martin McLaughlin THE LESBIAN PREMODERN Edited by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt THE LESBIAN PREMODERN Copyright © Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt, 2011. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-61676-9 All rights reserved. First published in 2011 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-38018-3 ISBN 978-0-230-11719-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230117198 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The lesbian premodern / edited by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt. p. cm.—(The New Middle Ages) 1. Lesbians—History. 2. Homosexuality—History. I. Giffney, Noreen. II. Sauer, Michelle M., 1972– III. Watt, Diane, 1965– HQ75.5.L444 2011 306.76(cid:2)6309—dc22 2010025623 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: February 2011 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Heike Bauer for her support and enthusiasm For Nicole Murray, my hot water bottle For Adam Bures for his love and encouragement
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