Queer Iberia : sexualities, cultures, and crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance / edited by Josiah Blackmore and Gregory S. Hutcheson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Saint Pelagius, Ephebe and martyr / Mark D. Jordan -- "Affined to love the Moor" : sexual misalliance and cultural mixing in The Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer / Benjamin Liu -- Queer representation in the Arçipreste de Talavera, or The maldezir de mugeres is a drag / Catherine Brown -- "Tanquam effeminatum" : Pedro II of Aragon and the gendering of heresy in the Albigensian crusade / Sara Lipton -- The semiotics of phallic aggression and anal penetration as male agonistic ritual in the Libro de buen amor / Louise O. Vasvári -- Male bonding as cultural construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel : homosocial friendship in Medieval Iberia / Roberto J. González-Casanovas -- The poets of Sodom / Josiah Blackmore -- Desperately seeking Sodom : queerness in The chronicles of Alvaro de Luna / Gregory S. Hutcheson -- Juan Ruiz's heterosexual "good love" / Daniel Eisenberg -- Fictions of infection : diseasing the sexual other in Francesc Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les dones / Michael Solomon -- "A tierro, puto!" : Alfonso de Palencia's discourse of effeminacy / Barbara Wissberger -- "Tened por espejo su fin" : mapping gender and sex in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spain / Linde M. Brocato -- Dismembering the body politic : vile bodies and sexual underworld in Celestina / E. Michael Gerli -- From convent to battlefield : cross-dressing and gendering the self in the new world of Imperial Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry -- Written on the body : slave or hermaphrodite in sixteenth-century Spain / Israel Burshatin.