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Progress in describing the sexuality of Spaniards in the past has been accomplished by a handful of disparate movements and interests – women's history, studies of the Spanish Inquisition, literary criticism, ‘queer theory’, etc. Early modern Spanish history also presents historians with some persistent debates regarding sexual behavior; most notably, the relationship between religion and sexuality. Edward Behrend‐Martínez describes the different contributions, problems, and contradictory conclusions produced by scholars in this field, and proposes some paths forward in uncovering the history of early modern Spanish sexuality.

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Performing Knighthood

Piera

2012

Men and Masculinities

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The chivalric romance Tirant lo Blanc, composed by Joanot Martorell between 1460 and 1464, very clearly epitomizes an alternative to constructions of masculinity in the genre. The hero, Tirant lo Blanc, often performs a challenge to archetypes of masculinity in Medieval Iberia. The author's objective is to analyze several episodes where Tirant is depicted as ''queer'' or effeminate and discuss the implications of placing such episodes in a text of a genre usually viewed as a paradigm of masculinity. This article will examine these instances and seek to demonstrate that preconceived ideas about Hispanic archetypes of being a man constructed in modern times often have distorted early modern male behavior. KeywordsIberian chivalry romances, ''Tirant lo Blanc'', masculinity in Tirant lo Blanc, queerness in Tirant, gender role-reversal, performance, sexual identity in Tirant lo Blanc, film, Vicente ArandaGender and sexual identity have been constructed in many different guises in medieval romances of chivalry. Although often interpreted as works which epitomize a very conventional and patriarchal view of sexuality, a close reading of all these texts demonstrates that medieval ideas about sexuality were not fixed or static. Moreover,

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Virtue, Virility, and History in Fifteenth-Century Castile

Virtue, Virility, and History in Fifteenth-Century Castile

Making Sense of the History of Sex and Gender in Early Modern Spain

Performing Knighthood

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