Title Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the early modern times : new approaches to a fundamental cultural-historical and literary-anthropological theme / edited by Albrecht Classen

Published Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 903 pages) : illustrations Series Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture, 1864-3396 ; 3 Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 3. Contents Frontmatter; Table of Contents; The Cultural Significance of Sexuality in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Beyond. A Secret Continuous Undercurrent or a Dominant Phenomenon of the Premodern World? Or: The Irrepressibility of Se; Naked Men in Medieval German Literature and Art Anthropological, Cultural Historical, and Mental Historical Investigations; The Exposed Body and the Gendered Blemmye: Reading the Wonders of the East; Lust ohne Liebe Roswitha von Gandersheim und geschlechtsspezifische Strafen für sündigen Sex; Sex and Fertility in Marie de France's Lais Summary The studies in this volume explore the phenomenon of sexuality in a variety of medieval and early-modern literatures, including Old English texts, Middle-High German narratives, medieval Spanish and early-modern French literature, and also eighteenth-century English novels. Art historians, historians, and social historians contribute as much as researchers of the history of mentality and religion. The problem with sexuality within the medieval Church finds extensive consideration, and so the fundamental debate among modern sociologists and anthropoligists regarding the evaluation of sexuality, Analysis Art History Early-Modern Culture and Literature Medieval Culture and Literature Sexuality Social History Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Chiefly in English with three contributions in German Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Sex in literature. Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. European literature -- Renaissance Literature, Medieval Sex in literature Literatur Erotik Motiv Seksualiteit. Cultuurgeschiedenis. Literaire thema's. 15.70 history of Europe. 17.93 themes and motives in literature. Sexualität -- Motiv -- Literatur Sexualität -- Geschichte Mittelalter Sexualität -- Europa -- Geschichte 16. Jh Literatur -- Motiv -- Sexualität Motiv (Literatur) Sexualität Sexualité Littérature Moyen âge Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Aufsatzsammlung [Études diverses] Form Electronic book Author Classen, Albrecht ISBN 9783110209402 3110209403 1283396971 9781283396974 9786613396976 6613396974

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