Suchergebnisse

Introduction : segregation, zoning, and assimilation in medieval towns / Derek Keene -- Various ethnic and religious groups in medieval German towns : some evidence and reflections / Felicitas Schmieder -- Russians in Livonian towns in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Anti Selart -- "Propter disparitatem linguae et religionis pares non esse" : "minority" communities in medieval and early modern Lviv / Olha Kozubska-Andrusiv -- Foreign ethnic groups in the towns of southern Hungary in the Middle Ages / István Petrovics -- Buda : the multi-ethnic capital of medieval Hungary / András Végh -- Late medieval ethnic structures in the inland towns of present-day Slovenia / Boris Golec -- Gradation of differences : ethnic and religious minorities in medieval Dubrovnik / Zdenka Janeković-Römer -- Minorities and foreigners in Bulgarian medieval towns in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries : literary and archaeological fragments / Kazimir Popkonstantinov and Rossina Kostova -- Nobiles, cives, et popolari : four towns under the rule of Carlo I Tocco (c. 1375-1429) / Nada Zečević -- The towns of medieval Hungary in the reports of contemporary travellers / Balázs Nagy -- Crown, gown, and town : zones of royal, ecclesiastical, and civic interaction in medieval Buda and Visegrád / József Laszlovszky -- Integration through language : the multilingual character of late medieval Hungarian towns / Katalin Szende -- The visual image of the "other" in medieval urban space : patterns and construction / Gerhard Jaritz

This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looked like and how they may have existed on the margins and borders of dominant, normative sexuality and desire. The contributors work with recent trends in queer medieval studies, blending together modern concepts of sexuality and desire with the queer configurations of eroticism, desire, and materiality as they might have existed for medieval audiences