Queer criticisms analyze Galehot and Malory's Lavain as representations of homoeroticism in medieval literature, suggesting a nuanced view of male love in a homophobic era.
This article adds two Arthurian characterizations to Queer Criticisms emerging analysis of homoeroticism in late medieval literature: Galehot, from the 13th-century Prose Lancelot , and Malory’s Lavain, from the story of Elaine le Blanke, the Fair Maid of Astolat. Both are altogether anomalous figures for the virulently homophobic late Middle Ages: positively represented men who love other men; and Galehot is one of the great homoerotic portraits of medieval literature.
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