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Kiss My Relics
David Rollo
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Description for Kiss My Relics
Hardcover. Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity. This title examines two texts - Alain de Lille's "De planctu Naturae" and "Guillaume de Lorris" and Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose". Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of the pagan legacy were treated with particular distrust: fiction, conceived as a devious contrivance that falsified God's order; and, rhetorical opulence, viewed as a vain extravagance. Writing that offered these dangerous allurements came to be known as 'hermaphroditic' and, by the later Middle Ages, to be equated with homosexuality. At the margins of these developments, however, some authors began to validate ... Read more
Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of the pagan legacy were treated with particular distrust: fiction, conceived as a devious contrivance that falsified God's order; and, rhetorical opulence, viewed as a vain extravagance. Writing that offered these dangerous allurements came to be known as 'hermaphroditic' and, by the later Middle Ages, to be equated with homosexuality. At the margins of these developments, however, some authors began to validate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226724614
SKU
V9780226724614
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About David Rollo
David Rollo is associate professor of English, with a joint appointment in the Department of French and Italian, at the University of Southern California. He is the author of two books, most recently of Glamorous Sorcery: Magic and Literacy in the High Middle Ages.
Reviews for Kiss My Relics
"There is no book now available that makes the arguments that Rollo is advancing with anything near the force of Kiss My Relics. Through it, one is introduced to complex but rewarding arguments about language theory and representation, and the interplay between Latin and the vernacular, England and the continent, and religious and pagan literary traditions." (William Burgwinkle, King's College, ... Read more