Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / Gregory S. Hutcheson and Josiah Blackmore 1

I. Queering Iberia

Saint Pelagius, Ephebe and Martyr / Mark D. Jordan 23

"Affined to love the Moor": Sexual Misalliance and Cultural Mixing in the Cantigas d'escarnho e de mal dizer / Benjamin Liu 48

Queer Representation in the Arçipreste de Talavera, or, The Maldezir de mugeres Is a Drag / Catherine Brown 73

II. Iberian Masculinities

"Tanquam effeminatum": Pedro II of Aragon and the Gendering of Heresy in the Albigensian Crusade / Sara Lipton 107

The Semiotics of Phallic Aggression and Anal Penetration as Male Agonistic Ritual in the Libro de buen amor / Louise O. Vasvári 130

Male Bonding as Cultural Construction in Alfonso X, Ramon Llull, and Juan Manuel: Homosocial Friendship in Medieval Iberia / Roberto J. González-Casanovas 157

III. Sources of Sodom

The Poets of Sodom / Josiah Blackmore 195

Desperately Seeking Sodom: Queerness in the Chronicles of Alvaro de Luna / Gregory S. Hutcheson 222

Juan Ruiz's Heterosexual "Good Love" / Daniel Eisenberg 250

IV. Normativity and Nationhood

Fictions of Infection: Diseasing the Sexual Other in Francesc Eiximenis's Lo llibre de les dones / Michael Soloman 277

"!A tierra, puto!": Alfonso de Palencia's Discourse of Effeminacy / Barbara Weissberger 291

"Tened por espejo su fin": Mapping Gender and Sex in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Spain / Linde M. Brocato 325

V. The Body and the State

Dismembering the Body Politic: Vile Bodies and Sexual Underworlds in Celestina / E. Michael Gerli 369

From Convent to Battlefield: Cross-Dressing and Gender the Self in the New World of Imperial Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry 394

Written on the Body: Slave or Hermaphrodite in Sixteenth-Century Spain / Israel Burshatin 420

Index 457

Contributors 475