![]() The texts Linkinen has to consider are a variety of theological, penitential, and spiritual texts (not all English) ( The Book of Vices and Virtues, John Mirk's Instructions for Parish Priests, Ancrene Wisse), a small number of contemporary histories/chronicles (Adam of Usk, Thomas Walsingham, the Life of Edward II), and literary texts by Chaucer, the author of Cleanness, William Langland, John Gower, and the romance Amis and Amiloun. There is precisely one, if very interesting, law case for example-that of the cross-dressing prostitute John/Eleanor Rykener. Given the vast amount of textual material that has survived from late medieval England, the pickings available that allude to same-sex sexuality are meagre. One result of this method is a certain amount of repetition within and between chapters but Linkinen achieves his goal of an exhaustive overview. Linkinen's approach is to take the limited number of texts and to examine them under a series of six topic headings, or "frames," aimed at bringing out their significance. Paul Linkinen's Same-sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture is a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the very limited evidence-mostly textual, some visual-about same-sex-sexuality in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. ![]()
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