Sexuality, sociality, and cosmology in medieval literary texts
"This collection seeks to explore the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. The range is wide and yet it shows that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, are grappling with the same sets of q...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York, NY u.a.
Palgrave Macmillan
2013
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | The new Middle Ages
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This collection seeks to explore the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. The range is wide and yet it shows that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, are grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality: How does it conform to or reproduce world order? How might it disrupt that order? Does it bring people closer to the divine, or does it distance them? For all of the authors, the answers lie in their models of body and cosmos and how they work together"-- "This collection seeks to explore the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries. The range is wide and yet it shows that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, are grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality: How does it conform to or reproduce world order? How might it disrupt that order? Does it bring people closer to the divine, or does it distance them? For all of the authors, the answers lie in their models of body and cosmos and how they work together"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XII, 194 S. Ill. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780230109803 978-0-230-10980-3 0230109802 0-230-10980-2 |