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Livre des Manières (Étienne de Fougères)

12th century French poem cataloging various social classes that contains an unusual section describing women who have sex with women in various metaphoric images.

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Lesbian Historic Motif Project: #67b Amer 2008 Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

This chapter covers the same material as Amer 2001 covering the 12th century Livre des Manières by Etienne de Fougères. (See also Clark 2001 for more details on the poem's language.)

Lesbian Historic Motif Project: #26 – Amer 2001 “Lesbian Sex and the Military: From the Medieval Arabic Tradition to French Literature”

Amer draws close connections between the symmetric penis-less images of Etienne de Forgères' 12th century French poem Livre des Manières, a catalog-in-verse of different classes of people, focusing on the vices they are prone to. Parallels are noted between the language of this poem and depictions of lesbian sexuality found in Arabic homoerotic literature.

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