The Body Beloved: Sexuality and Desire in Medieval Art

This course is about the representation of love in the European Middle Ages. Through exploring art, visual and material culture, this class will consider critical interventions in premodern art histories of sexuality and gender. We will analyse textiles representing love stories, objects of courtship and manuscript illuminations of the naked human figure. Working from feminist, queer and trans studies informed approaches to the body, we will consider how art historians write about subjectivity and desire.

Credit Level: 10 Year Taken: Year 4 Undergraduate