The Cambridge History of Gay and Lbian Lerature - November 2014
Contents:
BT GAY POEMS
* gay medieval poems *
Homoerotic Verse.
GAY MEDIEVAL KNIGHTS BOOKS
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One of the many surpris of the poetry of al-Andal (as the Moors lled the land they occupied the Iberian Pensula) is the existence of homoerotic verse. The ntued and wispread penng of homoerotic poetry reflected, then, a marked ambivalence or at least ut acceptance when popular attu was measured agast orthodox stanc. In reciproted homosexual love, Ibn Hazm seems to suggt that relatnship be rtricted to chaste embrac and kiss whout terurse or at least should not ge on public moraly.
Homoerotic poetry al-Andal is many ways much like heterosexual verse that seeks to open to rears a world of unexpected associatns based on imag that light awakeng a sensory rponse.
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Books shelved as gay-medieval-knights: The Damng Stone by T.J. Klune, Pool of Dreams by Sam Burns, How I Stole the Prcs's Whe Knight and Turned H... * gay medieval poems *
One of the bt-known poets of homoerotic verse is Ibn Shuhayd (992-1035), like Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi, om Córdoba. A fal example shows how difficult is sometim to distguish between homosexual and heterosexual poems, sce the imagery n be siar to that ed scribg the lady.
The sensatn om readg this kd of poetry –not only homoerotic but also heterosexual– is that of refed eroticism and dolent pleasure. Wrg about we and homosexualy was perhaps, acceptable bee was not seen as openly advotg such behavur but as a doorway to new and unexpected worlds of athetic pleasur. the light of day—bright, ftive, gay!