The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE - Couverture souple

Livre 14 sur 27: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning

Reddy, William M.

 
9780226706276: The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
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ISBN 10 : 0226706273 ISBN 13 : 9780226706276
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2012

Synopsis

In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with honor and secrecy, European poets, romance writers, and lovers devised a vision of love as something quite different from desire. Romantic love was thus born as a movement of covert resistance.

In The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, William M. Reddy illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent—or innocent enough. Reddy strikes out from this historical moment on an international exploration of love, contrasting the medieval development of romantic love in Europe with contemporaneous eastern traditions in Bengal and Orissa, and in Heian Japan from 900-1200 CE, where one finds no trace of an opposition between love and desire. In this comparative framework, Reddy tells an appealing tale about the rise and fall of various practices of longing, underscoring the uniqueness of the European concept of sexual desire.

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À propos de l'auteur

William M. Reddy is the William T. Laprade Professor of History and professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of a number of historical works, including The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226706273
ISBN 13 
9780226706276
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
439
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Personne responsable
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9780226706269: The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE

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ISBN 10 :  0226706265 ISBN 13 :  9780226706269
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2012
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