IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1607: Queer Community in the Middle Ages, II: Networks and Institutions
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Tim Wingard, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Tim Wingard, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
| Paper 1607-a | Epistolary Queerness: A Medieval and Early Modern Study of Sexuality (Language: English) Index terms: Archives and Sources, Ecclesiastical History, Sexuality, Women's Studies |
| Paper 1607-b | Male Homosexuality in the Galician-Portuguese Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer in the Light of the Community Norms of Emotional Expression (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Political Thought, Sexuality, Social History |
| Paper 1607-c | Premodern / Queer / Community: Reconsidering the Narrative of Medieval Marginalisation (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Sexuality, Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Abstract | This session focuses on methodological approaches to reconstructing 'historical' queer communities through sources such as letters, chronicles and troubadour poetry. It explores how queer networks could be maintained and reproduced via both religious and secular institutions, including nunneries, pagan priesthoods, and aristocratic courts. This session's speakers argue that queer communities could thrive within these environments in part due to the opportunities for homosocial connections which they provided, which in turn could take on romantic or sexual aspects. It ultimately advocates for the analytical utility of the concept of community in research on medieval queerness. |