The Courtly Love Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Courtly Love Tradition write by Bernard O'Donoghue. This book was released on 1982. The Courtly Love Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Art of Courtly Love
The Art of Courtly Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Courtly Love write by Andreas (Capellanus.). This book was released on 1990. The Art of Courtly Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The social system of 'courtly love' soon spread after becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century. This book codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174 into "one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explain the secret of a civilization."
Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality
Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality write by James A. Schultz. This book was released on 2006-08-15. Courtly Love, the Love of Courtliness, and the History of Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 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 by extrinsic signs of class: bodies that were visibly noble and behaviors that represented exemplary courtliness. Individuals became “subjects” of courtly love only to the extent that their love took the shape of certain courtly roles such as singer, lady, or knight. They hoped not only for physical union but also for the social distinction that comes from realizing these roles to perfection. To an extraordinary extent, courtly love represented the love of courtliness—the eroticization of noble status and the courtly culture that celebrated noble power and refinement
Courtly Love
Courtly Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Courtly Love write by Jean Markale. This book was released on 2000-11. Courtly Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive examination of the rituals and philosophies that created and sustained medieval troubadour culture • Debunks the myth of the platonic nature of courtly love, showing the many sexual similarities to the Tantric practices of India • Reveals how the roots of courtly love go back to the matriarchal cultures of neolithic times The widespread turmoil that shook Western Europe as it entered the new millennium with the year 1000 prompted a vast reevaluation of the chief tenets of society. Foremost among these was a new way of looking at love and the place held by women in society. The Christian-inspired tradition that at best viewed women with contempt--and often with outright fear and loathing--was replaced by a new perspective, one in which women enjoyed a central role as the inspiration for all male action. For several hundred years courtly love, with its emphasis on adultery, carnal pleasures, and the power of the feminine, dominated European culture despite its flouting of conventional Christian morality. Medieval historians by and large have tended to regard courtly love as a sterile parlor game for the upper classes. To the contrary, Jean Markale shows that the stakes were much higher: the roots of the ritual re-created here go all the way back to the great mother goddess. In addition, the platonic nature attributed to these relationships is based on a misunderstanding of courtly love; underneath the refined poetry of the troubadours' verses flourished a system of sexual initiation that rivaled Indian Tantra.
Troubadour Poems from the South of France
Troubadour Poems from the South of France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Troubadour Poems from the South of France write by William Doremus Paden. This book was released on 2007. Troubadour Poems from the South of France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
