Knights in Arms

Goran Stanivukovic is a professor in the English Department at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Mapping TerritoriesPart I: The Knight and Romances of Trade1. Purchasing Kingdoms in the Eastern Mediterranean2. The Knight on the Silk Road3. The Marriage of Merchant Kingdoms in Romances of MenPart II: Intimacy, Sexuality, and Queer Levant4. Desire and Knightly Masculinity5. Cruising the Eastern Mediterranean: The Knight, the Friend, the Favourite, and Homoerotic RomanceAfterword: Mediterranean Masculinities

‘This book takes an innovative and fascinating outlook on prose romances of the Eastern Mediterranean.’- Giulia M. Mari (Sixteenth Century Journal vol 68:01:2017) "Knights in Arms makes some very interesting and suggestive arguments, most notably about English efforts to bypass Persian middlemen along the Silk Road and England’s new trade with Turkey….Its topics and texts are both important and under-studied, and Stanikuvic makes a good case for his questions and perspectives."- Elizabeth Hodgson, University of British Columbia (University of Toronto Quarterly, vol 87 3, Summer 2018)