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Cultures of Latin restores a sense of the Latin tradition as continuous and culturally significant across the <i>longue durée</i> from antiquity to the present moment. The series resists a narrative of periodization and rupture, and looks critically at the conceptual hierarchies that have so long been in place. Attentive to a fundamental axis of Latinities, but at the same time to the contexts and politics of those Latinities, the series will cumulatively provide a new cultural history of Latin which presses outside the grooves of interpretative convention. The books are short, essayistic, original, and provocative.

  • General Editors: Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania

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Queering Medieval Latin Rhetoric
  • Silence, Subversion, and Sexual Heterodoxy
  • David Townsend
  • Published online:
    15 January 2023
    Print publication:
    05 January 2023
  • This book reflects on what medieval Latin authors don't say about the sex nobody had-or maybe some had-and about how they don't say it. Their silences are artfully constructed, according to a rhetorical tradition reaching back to classical practice and theory. The strategy of preterition calls attention to something scandalous precisely by claiming to pass over it. Because it gestures toward what's missing from the text itself, it epitomizes a destabilizing reliance on audience reaction that informs the whole of classical rhetoric's technology of persuasion. Medieval Latin preterition invites our growing awareness, when we attend to it closely, that silence is not single, but that silences are multiple. Their multiplicity consists not in what preterition is, but in what it does. Preterition's multiple silences enabled subversive interpretations by individuals and communities marginalized under dominant regimes of sexuality-as they still do today.