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Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
James A. Schultz
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Hardcover. One of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe's courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has been ignored by historians of sexuality. This work aims to correct this oversight with an analysis of key courtly texts of the medieval German literary tradition. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 478.
One of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe's courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the festival, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has strangely been ignored by historians of sexuality. With "Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality", James A. Schultz corrects this oversight with careful analysis of key courtly texts of the medieval German literary tradition. Courtly love, Schultz finds, was provoked not by the biological and intrinsic factors that play such a large role in our contemporary thinking about sexuality - sex difference or desire - but ... Read more
One of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe's courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the festival, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has strangely been ignored by historians of sexuality. With "Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality", James A. Schultz corrects this oversight with careful analysis of key courtly texts of the medieval German literary tradition. Courtly love, Schultz finds, was provoked not by the biological and intrinsic factors that play such a large role in our contemporary thinking about sexuality - sex difference or desire - but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226740898
SKU
V9780226740898
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About James A. Schultz
James A. Schultz is professor of German at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of three previous books, including, most recently, The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100 - 1350.
Reviews for Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
"This is the most important study of courtly love to appear in the last twenty years. Drawing on the rich medieval German literary tradition, this book argues that what moderns think of as sex is, in fact, a historical construct. Showing in detail how the great medieval German texts understood the category of sex, James Schultz adds a considerable chapter ... Read more