Reviews for Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century

The average rating for Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-11-22 00:00:00 George Reid Really disappointing. Like so many books in The New Middle Ages Series, it reads like a dissertation. Wonder why? Had it been allowed to percolate for a few more years, it perhaps would have entangled itself in necessary and exciting questions like: what counts as 'eros'? why do we want to have books like these? Without that necessary meta-critical practice, Zeikowitz often looks as though he's really stretching. It might have looked beyond the usual set of Middle English texts (with a bit of the Vulgate cycle mixed in) and towards, say the sex metaphors at the end of Hartmann von Aue's Erec or towards the---can't remember it now--the romance in which a lord banishes all women from his castle to form an exclusively male group of warriors and lovers. He also might have considered samesex sexuality among women...

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-16 00:00:00 Karol Kk Oedipus Rex was an interesting story to me because you don't often read about a son marrying and having kids by his own mother. For me as I continued reading it created more suspense. I always enjoy books that creates suspense for me, always leaving me guessing what's happening next. I usually don't tragic romantic stories liked this but after reading Oedipus Rex it changed my perspective on books similar to it.