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Record Number:
45526
Author(s)/Creator(s):
de Lille , Alain, and David Rollo
Contributor(s):
Title:
The Plaint of Nature (
De planctu Naturae
)
Source:
Medieval Writings on Sex between Men: Peter Damian's
The Book of Gomorrah
and Alain de Lille's
The Plaint of Nature
.David Rollo, translator. Brill, 2022. Pages 103 - 173. Available with a subscription from Brill:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507326_003
Description:
What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response. What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifying and excoriating male same-sex relations, yet does so in a text showing an exuberant and unabashed orientation towards metaphorical language? Is the author in question rhetorically perpetrating precisely the so-called affront to nature he grammatically denounces? Twelfth-century poet Alain de Lille enacts an ambiguously enigmatic response.— [Reproduced from the book page on the Brill website:
https://brill.com/view/title/57406
]
Article Type:
Translation
Subject
(See Also)
:
Alain de Lille, Author- De Planctu Naturae
Homoeroticism
Homosexuality
Latin Literature
Literature- Verse
Marriage
Nature (Literary Figure)
Sexuality
Award Note:
Feminae Translation of the Month, September 2022
Geographic Area:
France
Century:
12
Primary Evidence:
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Abstract:
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Author's Affiliation:
University of Southern California
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2022.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
9789004429659 (print); 9789004507326 (online)