Homoeroticism and Chivalry

Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative ''queer'' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between...