Eroticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Magic, Marriage, and Midwifery: 39 (Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance) - Hardcover
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Magic rings; seductive she-devils; satyrs bound and whipped on stage; a woman sexually coerced in the confessional; a boy caught masturbating over a midwifery manual; a marriage of true minds between two men; a prince led to repentance at the sight of a naked girl prepared to give her life for his. These varied manifestations of medieval and early modern sexuality--each at the center of one of the essays in this volume--suggest the ubiquity and diversity of eroticism in the period. The erotic is the stuff of legend, but also of daily life. It is inextricable from relations of power and subordination and it plays a fundamental role in the heirarchical social structures of the period. The erotic is also very much a part of the spiritual realm, often in morally ambiguous ways. The seven essays collected in this volume explore the role the erotic played in early modern notions of happiness or fulfillment, in clerical life, in Jewish legend, heretical magic and Christian marriage, in poetry, on the public stage, and in medical manuals.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 2016 Brepols hardcover. Ex library copy with stamps and labels else good condition. Contents: Chapter 1, 'The Erotic and the Quest for Happiness in the Middle Ages: What Everybody Aspires To and Hardly Anyone Truly Achieves; Medieval Eroticism and Mysticism'; Chapter 2, 'The Erotic as Lewdness in Spanish and Mexican Religious Culture During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'; Chapter 3, 'Disarticulating Lilith: Notions of God's Evil in Jewish Folklore'; Chapter 4, 'Sex and the Satyr in the Pastoral Tradition: Isabella Andreini's La Mirtilla as Pro-Feminist Erotica'; Chapter 5, 'Erotic Magic: Rings, Engraved Precious Gems and Masculine Anxiety'; Chapter 6, 'Figuring Marital Queerness in Shakespeare's Sonnets'; Chapter 7, 'Sexual Education and Erotica in the Popular Midwifery Manuals of Thomas Raynalde and Nicholas Culpeper'. Seller Inventory # XB-6YAX-6Y1Z
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