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Something queer is going on: sex and methodology in the Middle Ages.(Queering the Middle Ages)(Marriage Contracts from Chaucer to the Renaissance Stage)(Book Review)
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Burger, Glenn, and Steven Kruger, eds. 2001. Queering the Middle Ages. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. $54.95hc. $19.95sc. 256 pp.
Jacobs, Kathryn. 2001. Marriage Contracts from Chaucer to the Renaissance Stage. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. $59.95hc. 192 pp.
Medieval Studies has often been perceived by those outside the field as a scholarly backwater, a mire of Byzantine languages and sub-disciplines so numerous that their mastery leaves little or no room for methodological sophistication. While innovative work can be found in many areas of the field, it is in the study of medieval sexualities that contemporary theoretical models and ...
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