Medievalists.net » Tristan de Nanteiul http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Kissing Cousins: Incest and Sex Change in Tristan de Nanteuil http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/kissing-cousins-incest-sex-change-tristan-de-nanteuil/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/06/kissing-cousins-incest-sex-change-tristan-de-nanteuil/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:52:06 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51665 In this paper I re-examine Blanchandine‘s sex change in light of its relation to the issue of incest; as I will show, incest is directly related to the sex change and also punctuates the narrative at other points. Tristan de Nanteuil depicts two sexual and/or romantic relationships between cousins...

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