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Pleasure in the Middle Ages

Pleasure in the Middle Ages

Cohen Hanegbi, Naama
Nagy, Piroska

Hardcover

Series: International Medieval Research, Book 24

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 250357520X
ISBN13: 9782503575209
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: Mar 19 2018
Pages: 386
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
This volume explores the diverse manifestations and uses of pleasure in medieval culture. Pleasure is a sensation, an affirmation, a practice, and is at the core of the medieval worldview, no less than pain. 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. (...) the volume provides a diverse collection of approaches with a couple of exemplary contributions. (Claire Taylor Jones, in The Medieval Review, 18.12.04)

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