Courtly desire and medieval homophobia
Christian poetry, English (Middle)
Religious aspects of Homosexuality
Gay men in literature
Desire in literature
Homosexuality, religious aspects, christianity
Pleasure
Sex, religious aspects, christianity
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Homosexuality and literature
Religious aspects of Sex
Civilization, medieval
Medieval Literature
Medieval Civilization
Homosexuality
History of doctrines
Sex
In literature
English
Religious aspects
Christianity
History and criticism
History
In the first comprehensive study of Cleanness and its medieval contexts, Elizabeth B. Keiser shows how this fourteenth-century religious poem legitimates erotic pleasure as natural apart from procreative justification and thus represents a unique moment in Western culture. She argues that Cleanness …
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