Author: Keiser, Elizabeth B.
Title: Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia : The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and its Contexts /
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1997). orig.boards. 23x15cm, x,299 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Narrative Theology of 'Cleanness' & the Aesthetic Ethics of Thomas Aquinas; Homophobic Wrath & Paradisal Pleasure; Educating Love: Nature as Sexual Norm in 'Cleanness' and Alain's 'Complaint'; The Sexual Ethics of 'Cleanness' and Thomas Aquinas on Temperance; Revising the ' Complaint': Desire in the 'Roman' as a Context for 'Cleanness'; Privileging the Feminine: Courtly Revisions of Masculinity; Homosocial Bondings with God and Christ; Theopoetic Coherence; 'Cleanness' Among Its Manuscript Companions.

Keywords: Medieval English Literature, Literary Criticism, Social History, Homosexuality, Middle English, Christian Poetry, Courtly Love, Sex Pleasure, Purity Desire