TY - BOOK ID - 137782773 TI - Medieval Writings on Sex between Men : Peter Damian's Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's The Plaint of Nature PY - 2022 SN - 9789004507326 9789004429659 PB - Leiden ; Boston : Brill DB - UniCat KW - Homosexuality in literature KW - Homosexuality UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137782773 AB - What happens if a cleric breaks his vows of sexual abstinence? What happens if the cleric in question does so repeatedly with other men of his vocation? Eleventh-century theologian Peter Damian provides a response. What happens if an author uses metaphor as a metaphor signifying and excoriating male same-sex relations, yet does so in a text showing an exuberant and unabashed orientation towards metaphorical language? Is the author in question rhetorically perpetrating precisely the so-called affront to nature he grammatically denounces? Twelfth-century poet Alain de Lille enacts an ambiguously enigmatic response. ER -