William Burgwinkle surveys poetry and letters, histories and literary fiction - including Grail romances - to offer a historical survey of attitudes towards sam

This book offers a historical survey of attitudes towards same-sex love during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.

This ambitious study links William Langland's great poem Piers Plowman to wider medieval enquiries into the nature of intellectual and spiritual desire. Zeeman'

Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, the author demonstrates