Editorial: Brill
Colección: Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 19
Número de páginas: 194 págs.
Fecha de edición: 15-03-2022
EAN: 9789004429659
ISBN: 978-90-04-42965-9
Precio (sin IVA): 118,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 122,72 €
What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response. What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifying and excoriating male same-sex relations, yet does so in a text showing an exuberant and unabashed orientation towards metaphorical language? Is the author in question rhetorically perpetrating precisely the so-called affront to nature he grammatically denounces? Twelfth-century poet Alain de Lille enacts an ambiguously enigmatic response.