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Social Change, Narrative Adaptation, and Homophobia: Comparing Two Late-12th-Century Adaptations of Ami and Amile in Old French
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2025-May-15
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My thesis investigates two versions of a popular literary legend of the Middle Ages, Ami and Amile, in the context of the growing clerical intolerance for homoeroticism (“sodomy”) in the twelfth century and afterward. The versions of Ami and Amile...
