SJSD 168 LGBTQ+ Issues in Medieval Religious Life

A study of LGBTQ+ identity, body, communities, and sexual being as understood, experienced and expressed within medieval Christianity.  The course will examine both the expression of LGBTQ+ identities as well as the challenges faced by these communities/ individuals during the middle ages, paying particular attention to medieval religious ideology, practice and life.  Topics may include lay and monastic homoeroticism, medieval conceptions of body and body-selves, “asexuality,” spiritual eroticism, gendered power construction, persecution and medieval heteronormativity, etc.


Credits

3

Prerequisite

RST 41 or RST 21 or PHI 21

Distribution

SJSD