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Pleasure in the Middle Ages
Title
Pleasure in the Middle Ages / edited by Naama Cohen-Hanegbi and Piroska Nagy.
ISBN
9782503575209
250357520X
9782503575216
2503575218
Publication
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xxiii, 383 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Applying a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays collected here analyse the role of pleasure in relation to a variety of subjects such as the human body, love, relationships, education, food, friendship, morality, devotion, and mysticism. They also integrate a wide range of sources including literature (monastic to courtly), medical texts, illuminated prayer books, iconography, and theatrical plays. Each document, each discipline, and thus each essay combine to provide a complex and diversified picture of medieval joys and delights - a picture that shows the extent to which pleasure is engrained in the period's culture. This collection shows how pleasure in the Middle Ages is at once a coveted feeling and a constant moral concern, both the object and the outcome of a constant negotiation between earthly and divine imperatives."-- Back cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 10, 2019
Series
International medieval research ; volume 24
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pleasured bodies. Reflections on high medieval monastic pleasures / Esther Cohen
'It is full merry in heaven' : the pleasurable connotations of 'merriment' in late medieval England / Philippa C. Maddern
The pleasures and joys of the humoral body in medieval medicine / Fernando Salmón
Bodily pleasures: late medieval medical counsel in context / Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
Visual pleasure and the illuminated prayer book / Maeve Doyle
Abbasid concubines and slave courtesans in Adab discourse : cultural mediators for an ethical appreciation of pleasure / Karen Moukheiber
Courts and pleasures : the neuroscience of pleasure and the pursuit of favour in twelfth-century courts / William M. Reddy
Didactic pleasures. Taking pleasure in virtues and vices : Alcuin's manual for Count Wido / Barbara H. Rosenwein
Sin, the business of pleasure, and the pleasure of reading : exemplary narratives and other forms of sinful pleasure in William Peraldus's Summa de vitiis / Richard Newhauser
The role of pleasure in the acquisition of good virtues : Giles of Rome's idea of education in his De regimine principum (c. 1279) / Noëlle-Laetitia Perret
Pleasure as an affective tool in pastoral care : the cases of Simone Fidati and Richard Rolle in fourteenth-century Italy and England / Xavier Biron-Ouellet
Hell: the pleasure of the suffering of others from visions of the afterlife to religious theatre / Élyse Dupras
Pleasures in God. Holy gluttons: Bede and the Carolingians on the pleasures of reading / Zachary Giuliano
On leeks and onions : Pope Gregory VII and the rejection of pleasure / Ken A. Grant
Intoxication and the Song of Songs : Bernard of Clairvaux and the rediscovery of Origen in the twelfth century / Constant J. Mews
Pleasure in medieval Christian mystical literature: the analysis of John of Ruusbroec (1281-1381) and Hadewijch (thirteenth century) / Rob Faesen.
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