Troubled Vision Gender, Sexuality, and Sight

Troubled Vision is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the interface between gender, sexuality and vision in medieval culture. The volume represents an exciting array of scholarship dealing with visual and textual cultures from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries. Bringing together a range of theoretical approaches that address the troubling effects of vision on medieval texts and images, the book mediates between medieval and modern constructions of gender and sexuality.

Emma Campbell is a specialist on Old French literature.

Robert Mills is a lecturer in English Literature in the English Department, King's College London.

Illustrations

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: Troubled Vision

1

(14)

Emma Campbell and Robert Mills

Part One Troubled Desires

15

(62)

1. Picturing Same-Sex Desire: The Falconer and His Lover in Images by Petrus Christus and the Housebook Master

17

(30)

Diane Wolfthal

2. Visible and Invisible Bodies and Subjects in Peter Damian

47

(16)

William Burgwinkle

3. Seeing Women Troubadours without the "-itz" and "-isms"

63

(16)

Francesca Nicholson

Part Two Troubled Looks

77

(60)

4. The Look of Love: The Gender of the Gaze in Troubadour Lyric

79

(18)

Simon Gaunt

5. Sacrificial Spectacle and Interpassive Vision in the Anglo-Norman Life of Saint Faith

97

(20)

Emma Campbell

6. Seeing Face to Face: Troubled Looks in the Katherine Group

117

(22)

Robert Mills

Part Three Troubled Representations

137

(36)

7. Vision Beyond Measure: The Threshold of Iacopone's Bedroom

139

(16)

Cary Howie

8. Sex and the Medieval City: Viewing the Body Politic from Exile in Early Italian Verse

155

(20)

Catherine M. Keen

Part Four Troubled Readings

173

(48)

9. Reading Reading Women: Double-Mirroring the Dame in Der Ritter vom Turn

175

(18)

Anne Simon

10. Visualizing the Feminine in the Roman de Perceforest: The Episode of the "Conte de la Rose"

193

(14)

Sylvia Huot

11. Too Many Women: Reading Freud, Derrida, and Lancelot

207

(14)

Miranda Griffin

Response

221

(12)

12. The Medieval Looks Back: A Response to Troubled Vision

223

(10)

Sarah Salih

Contributors

233

(4)

Index

237

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Troubled Vision Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image

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