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Author Stahuljak, Zrinka.

Title Pornographic archaeology : medicine, medievalism, and the invention of the French nation / Zrinka Stahuljak
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series EBL-Schweitzer
Contents pt. I. Sex and blood -- pt. II. Sex and race -- pt. III. Sex and love
Summary "In Pornographic Archaeology: Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation, Zrinka Stahuljak explores the connections and fissures between the history of sexuality, nineteenth-century views of the Middle Ages, and the conceptualization of modern France. This cultural history uncovers the determinant role that the sexuality of the Middle Ages played in nineteenth-century French identity. Stahuljak's provocative study of sex, blood, race, and love in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical and historical literature demonstrates how French medicine's obsession with the medieval past helped to define European sexuality, race, public health policy, marriage, family, and the conceptualization of the Middle Ages. Stahuljak reveals the connections between the medieval military order of the Templars and the 1830 colonization of Algeria, between a fifteenth-century French marshal and the development of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's theory of sadism, between courtly love and the 1884 law on divorce. Although the developing discipline of medieval studies eventually rejected the influence of these medical philologists, the convergence of medievalism and medicine shaped modern capitalist French society and established a vision of the Middle Ages that survives today."--Project Muse
Analysis Cultural Studies
European History
Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
World History
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Medical anthropology -- France -- History -- 19th century
Social archaeology -- France -- History -- 19th century
Medievalism -- France -- History -- 19th century
Sex -- France -- History
Heredity -- France -- History
National characteristics, French.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Heredity
Medical anthropology
Medievalism
National characteristics, French
Sex
Social archaeology
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812207316
0812207319