Premodern Ruling Sexualities

Gabrielle Storey is a historian of monarchy, gender, and sexuality, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical SocietyZita Eva Rohr is a historian of the late medieval and early modern period, an honorary research fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Sydney, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques

• Introduction: Premodern ruling sexualities: representation, identity, and power - Gabrielle Storey and Zita Eva RohrPart I Scandal, perception, and representation1 “And though she made use of three openings...”: How and why to sexualise a late antique empress - Alexander Thies2 Eadwig’s coronation scandal: sexuality, rhetoric and the vulnerability of reputation - Matthew Firth3 Scandal, romance, political affairs. Walter Map’s “Portuguese King” and Anglo-Flemish relations in the twelfth century - Fabrizio De Falco4 Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer: lovers or allies? - Michael Evans5 Isabel of Castile and her images: viewing sex, scandal, and sanctity in fifteenth-century Spain - Jessica WeissPart II Gender, morality, and desire6 Gender, moral, and sexual warfare in the Roman de Silence - Kathleen M. Blumreich7 Muslim caliphs and homosexuality: al- Amin (787- 813) and al-Hakam II (915-976). Two men in pursuit of ‘hub al-walad’ - Fatima Rhorchi8 The Tour de Nesle affair: succession and sexuality in fourteenth-century France - Emily Lalande9 Chaste kings and unsuitable women: sex, interfaith relations, and sovereignty in the Castigos of Sancho IV of Castile - David Cantor-Echols10 ‘Sine communi favore’ the intersection of power, perception, and sexual morality in the careers of Piers Gaveston and the ‘royal favourites’ of fourteenth-century England - Audrey Covert