Gabrielle Storey & Zita Eva Rohr 
Premodern ruling sexualities [EPUB ebook] 
Representation, identity, and power

Introduction: Premodern ruling sexualities: representation, identity, and power – Gabrielle Storey and Zita Eva Rohr
Part I: Scandal, perception, and representation
1 “And though she made use of three openings…”: How and why to sexualise a late antique empress – Alexander Thies
2 Eadwig’s coronation scandal: sexuality, rhetoric and the vulnerability of reputation – Matthew Firth
3 Scandal, romance, political affairs. Walter Map’s “Portuguese King” and Anglo-Flemish relations in the eleventh century – Fabrizio De Falco
4 Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer: lovers or allies? – Michael Evans
5 Isabel of Castile and her images: viewing sex, scandal, and sanctity in fifteenth-century Spain – Jessica Weiss
Part II: Gender, morality, and desire
6 Gender, moral, and sexual warfare in the Roman de Silence – Kathleen M. Blumreich
7 Muslim caliphs and homosexuality: al- Amin (787- 813) and al-Hakam II (915-976). Two men in pursuit of ‘hub al-walad’ – Fatima Rhorchi
8 The Tour de Nesle affair: succession and sexuality in fourteenth-century France – Emily Lalande
9 Chaste kings and unsuitable women: sex, interfaith relations, and sovereignty in the Castigos of Sancho IV of Castile – David Cantor-Echols
10 ‘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
Index

Gabrielle Storey is a historian of twelfth- and thirteenth-century queenship, gender, and sexuality and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society Zita Eva Rohr is a historian of the late-medieval and early modern period, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Chevalier in the Ordre des palmes académiques