"Linkinen's book is comprehensive and he exhausts the relatively small number of texts, their actual statements, and their identifiable silences, and gets a lot out of them through his methodology of multiple frames. "Linkinen demonstrates the benefit of opening analysis up to a wider variety of sources and performs a valuable service by gathering those materials together within the pages of a single volume." - Robert Mills in Mirator "Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture is a rigorous yet warm-hearted book that provides an excellent systematic guide to a variety of possible conceptualizations of, and reactions to, same-sex sexual desire, sexual activity, and love. The combined image of the plural and somewhat contradictory voices and shared understanding appears as something entirely new.'" - Professor Jonas Liliequist, University of UmeƄ, Sweden. "Linkinen's work goes beyond previous work on same-sex relations in medieval Europe in several ways. "Tom Linkinen's study focuses on a variety of definitions, attitudes, beliefs and emotions about same-sex sexuality in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." - Professor Ruth Mazo Karras, University of Minnesota. Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture is a rigorous yet warm-hearted book that provides an excellent systematic guide to a variety of possible.
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