Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times

New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme

Buch | Hardcover

VIII, 903 Seiten

2008
De Gruyter (Verlag)
9783110205749 (ISBN)

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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.

"Dem Herausgeber ist es gelungen, eine internationale Autorenschar mit unterschiedlichem fachlichen Hintergrund zu versammeln. Das Ergebnis ist ein stattlicher 900-Seiten-Band, der ein ebenso facettenreiches wie profundes Bild von unterschiedlichen (überwiegend diskursiven) Aspekten mittelalterlicher und frühneuzeitlicher Sexualität liefert."
Ortrun Riha in: Das Mittelalter 15/2010

"Sexualitiy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times delivers a number of perspectives on medieval sexuality in a lot of space. [...] It could very likely, for its breadth and insight, become a centerpiece for a number of dissertations."
Patrick Brugh in: Focus on German Studies 16/2009

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.8.2008
Reihe/Serie	Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture ; 3
Zusatzinfo	85 b/w and 1 col. ill.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	1425 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Art History • Early-Modern Culture and Literature • Frühe Neuzeit / Frühneuzeit; Geistes-/Kultur-Geschichte • Frühe Neuzeit /Kultur • Frühneuzeit; Geistes-/Kultur-Geschichte • Hardcover, Softcover / Geschichte/Kulturgeschichte • HC/Geschichte/Kulturgeschichte • Medieval Culture and Literature • Mittelalter; Geistes-/Kultur-G. • Mittelalter /Kultur • Sexualität • Sexuality • Sexuality; Medieval Culture and Literature; Early-Modern Culture and Literature; Art History; Social History • Social History
ISBN-13	9783110205749 / 9783110205749
Zustand	Neuware