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

by Mills, Robert; Campbell, Emma

• ISBN13: 9781403963437
• ISBN10: 1403963436
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-07
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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