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In the ''Pennants of the Champions'', poetry is arranged according to home and occupation of the writer. Lyrics come from all over the Andalusian world: Alcalá , Córdoba , Granada, Lisbon , Murcia , Saragossa , Seville , Toledo , and Valencia . Authors include bureaucrats, gentlemen, kings, ministers, and scholars; the book is evidence of how important love poetry was to the educated of Al-Andalus . It is also one of the few historical remains of Love Between Men from the period. An excerpt from a poem of the ''Pennants'': His work stool (as if it were a Horse ) carries him proudly (as if he were a hero). But this hero of mine is armed only with a needle, long like his eyelashes and like them shining. Watching it stitch up the seams of a Cloak I think of the falling star trailed by a silken thread of light. He twists the thread and the thread twists about my Heart . O that my heart could follow him, close like the thread behind the needle! Poetry such as this would have a huge influence on the chivalric ideas of medieval Europe, although European Chivalry was very strictly limited to Love Between Men And Women . SOURCE '' Homosexuality and Civilization '' by Louis Crompton |
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