Introduction: Premodern ruling sexualities: representation, identity, and power - Gabrielle Storey and Zita Eva Rohr Part I Scandal, perception, and representation 1 "And though she made use of three openings.": How and why to sexualise a late antique empress - Alexander Thies 2 Eadwig's coronation scandal: sexuality, rhetoric and the vulnerability of reputation - Matthew Firth 3 Scandal, romance, political affairs. Walter Map's "Portuguese King" and Anglo-Flemish relations in the eleventh century - Fabrizio De Falco 4 Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer: lovers or allies? - Michael Evans 5 Isabel of Castile and her images: viewing sex, scandal, and sanctity in fifteenth-century Spain - Jessica Weiss Part II Gender, morality, and desire 6 Gender, moral, and sexual warfare in the Roman de Silence - Kathleen M. Blumreich 7 Muslim caliphs and homosexuality: al- Amin (787- 813) and al-Hakam II (915-976). Two men in pursuit of 'hub al-walad' - Fatima Rhorchi 8 The Tour de Nesle affair: succession and sexuality in fourteenth-century France - Emily Lalande 9 Chaste kings and unsuitable women: sex, interfaith relations, and sovereignty in the Castigos of Sancho IV of Castile - David Cantor-Echols 10 'Sine communi favore' the intersection of power, perception, and sexual morality in the careers of Piers Gaveston and the 'royal favourites' of fourteenth-century England - Audrey Covert.