In the first few pages of Lochrie’s first chapter: “The problem with the use of heteronormativity is…it slips a modern category into the premodern past..” While I might not be prepared to say that the unknown author of Sir Gawain was throwing around the term heteronormativity, I’m also not prepared to say that the medievals were conceptually bankrupt in the area of normativity. Moreover, I have to wonder what the gender theorists will have to discuss if they purport to set aside their lust for modern categories.