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.
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 Sex Yesterday and Today
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The Exposed Body and the Gendered Blemmye: Reading the Wonders of the East
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“Good Lovin’”: The Language of Erotic Desire and Fulfillment in Gottfried’s Tristan
págs. 257-278
The Limits of Reading Innuendo in Medieval Literature
Siegfried Christoph
págs. 279-292
Singing Desire: Musical Innuendo in Troubadour and Trouvère Song
págs. 293-324
A Vision of “Sexuality,” “Obscenity” or “Nudity”?: Regional Differences in the Images of Corbels
págs. 325-382
Heloise, Monastic Temptation, and Memoria: Rethinking Autobiography, Sexual Experience, and Ethics
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Gruppensex im Untergrund: Chaotische Ketzer und kirchliche Keuschheit im Mittelalter
págs. 405-428
Desire, Parody, and Sexual Mores in the Ending of Hue de Rotelande’s Ipomedon: An Invitation Through the Looking Glass
págs. 429-448
Feminine Sexuality and the Crusades Clerical Opposition to Women as a Strategy for Crusading Success
págs. 449-470
The Sexual Lives of Medieval Norman Clerics: A New Perspective on Clerical Sexuality
Jennifer D. Thibodeaux
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Inseminating Ruth in the Morgan Old Testament Picture Book: A Romance of the Crusades
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Intersecting the Ideal and the Real, Chivalry and Rape, Respect and Dishonor: The Problematics of Sexual Relationships in "Troilus and Criseyde" and "Sir Tristrem"
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Sexual Desire and Pornography: Literary Imagination in a Satirical Context. Gender Conflict, Sexual Identity, and Misogyny in “Das Nonnenturnier”
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Das Freudenhaus im Mittelalter: In der stat was gesessen / ain unrainer pulian...
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Prescription, Passion, and Patronage in Early Modern Spain: Legitimizing Illicit Love at Santo Domingo de Silos “el Antiguo,” Toledo
págs. 751-782
Fertilizing the French Vernacular: Procreation, Warfare, and Authorship in Jean de Meun, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Rabelais
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From the Clitoris to the Breast: The Eclipse of the Female Libido in Early Modern Art, Literature, and Philosophy
págs. 837-878
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