Constructing the Sexual Subject of John Skelton

Barnes examines the biography of John Skelton, a poet laureate, a professor of theology, and a married priest who kept under the title of a concubine. He claims that below the surface of this historical manufacturing is a process by which the subject of Skelton was passed through a Protestant propag...

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Published inELH Vol. 71; no. 1; pp. 29 - 51
Main Author Barnes, A. W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.04.2004
Subjects
Business
Catholicism
Clergy
Friars
Jokes
Literary criticism
Medieval poetry
Natural law
Poetry
Poets
Priests
Protestantism
Religious history
Sexual behavior
Sexuality
Skelton, John
Sodomy
Theology
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Summary:Barnes examines the biography of John Skelton, a poet laureate, a professor of theology, and a married priest who kept under the title of a concubine. He claims that below the surface of this historical manufacturing is a process by which the subject of Skelton was passed through a Protestant propaganda machine that stained him with a sexual perversion that biographies have spent centuries trying to wash out.
ISSN:0013-8304
1080-6547
1080-6547
DOI:10.1353/elh.2004.0013