Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3849
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Burgwinkle , William.
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  • Title: Visible and Invisible Bodies and Subjects in Peter Damian
  • Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image.  Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.  Pages 47 - 62.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Discipline Homosexuality in Literature Latin Literature Monks in Literature Peter Damian, Theologian- Book of Gomorrah Sight Sodomy
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 11
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  • Illustrations: This chapter argues that Peter Damian's "Liber gomorrhianus" (1049) may be an attack on sodomites within the eleventh-century clergy, but his panoptical gaze, his concern with discipline and subjectivization, sameness, community, and identity-less desire, also establish him as an early queer theorist. [(c)Emma Campbell and Robert Mills. Reprinted with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.]
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  • Author's Affiliation: King's College, University of Cambridge
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  • Year of Publication: 2004.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 1403963436