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On the history of the early phallus / Daniel Boyarin -- Gender irreg ularity as entertainment: institutionalized transvestism at the Calipha l Court in medieval Baghdad / Everett K. Rowson -- Reconfiguring the pr ophet Daniel: gender, sanctity, and castration in Byzantium / Kathryn M . Ringrose -- Negotiating gender in Anglo-Saxon England / Carol Braun P asternack -- Male friendship and the suspicion of sodomy in twelfth-cen tury France / Mathew S. Kuefler -- Crucified by the virtues: monks, lay brothers, and women in the thirteenth-century Cistercian saints' lives / Martha G. Newman -- "Because the other is a poor woman she shall be called his wench": gender, sexuality, and social status in late medieva l England / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Re-orienting desire: writing on gender trouble in fourteenth-century Egypt / Michael Uebel -- Manual labor, be gging, and conflicting gender expectations in thirteenth-century Paris / Sharon Farmer -- Female homoerotic discourse and religion in medieval Germanic culture / Ulrike Wiethaus -- Nonviolent Christianity and the strangeness of female power in Geoffrey Chaucer's Man of law's tale / E lizabeth Robertson.

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