Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
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- ISBN 9783110205749
- Weight: 1422g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2008
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.
Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
