Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages

$35.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Met Museum publications make perfect gifts for art lovers. By Melanie Holcomb and Nancy Thebaut This pioneering volume explores concepts of gender, sexuality, and love as portrayed in sculptures, paintings, manuscripts, and personal items to reveal the hidden sexuality and sensuality of medieval art. Using the critical approach known as queer theory, which offers a way to think more expansively about the past, the book interrogates aspects art and culture of the Middle Ages that are often overlooked, such as…