Queer Iberia

CONTENTS Illustrations and tables Acknowledgements IntroductionGregory S. Hutcheson, University of Illinois at Chicago & Josiah Blackmore, University of Toronto IQueering Iberia Saint Pelagius, Ephebe and MartyrMark D. Jordan, University of Notre Dame 'Affined to love the Moor': Sexual misalliance and cultural mixing in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizerBenjamin Liu, University of Connecticut Queer representation in the Arcipreste de talavera, or, the Maldezir de mugeres is a dragCatherine Brown, University of Michigan IIIberian masculinities 'Tanquam effeminatum': Pedro II of Aragon and the gendering of heresy in the Albigensian crusadeSara Lipton, SUNY at Stony Brook The semiotics of phallic aggression and anal penetration as male agonistic ritual in the Libro de buen amor Louise O. Vasvari Male bonding as cultural construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull and Juan Manuel: Homesocial friendship in medieval IberiaRoberto J. Gonzalez-Casanovas, University of Auckland IIISources of Sodom The poets of SodomJosiah Blackmore, University of Toronto Desperately seeking Sodom: Queerness in the chronicles of Alvaro de LunaGregory S. Hutcheson, University of Illinois at Chicago Juan Ruiz's heterosexula 'good love'Daniel Eisenberg Northern Arizona University IVNormativity and nationahood Fictions of infection: Diseasing the sexual other in Francesc Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les donesMichael Solomon, Emory University 'A tierra, puto!': Alfonso de Palencia's discourse of effeminacyBarbara Weissberger, Old Dominion University 'Tened por espejo su fin': Mapping gender and sex in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century SpainLinde M. Brocato VThe body and the state Dismembering the body politic: vile bodies and sexual underworlds in CelestinaE. Michael Gerli, Georgetown University From convent to battlefield: Cross-dressing and gendering the self in the New World of Imperial SpainMary Elizabeth Perry Written on the body: Slave or hermaphrodite in sixteenth-century SpainIsrael Burshatin, Haverford College, Pennsylvania Notes on contributors