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Sexuality, sociality, and cosmology in medieval literary texts

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sexuality, sociality, and cosmology in medieval literary texts/ edited by Jennifer N. Brown and Marla Segol.
other author:	Brown, Jennifer N.
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 194 p.)
Subject:	Literature, Medieval - History and criticism. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9781137037411 (electronic bk.)

Sexuality, sociality, and cosmology in medieval literary texts
Sexuality, sociality, and cosmology in medieval literary texts[electronic resource] /edited by Jennifer N. Brown and Marla Segol. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource (xii, 194 p.) - The new Middle Ages. - New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Narrating sexuality, sociality and cosmology in medieval texts / Jennifer N. Brown and Marla Segol -- The whore as Imago Dei: being and abjection in Hrotzvit's rewriting of Thais / Helene Scheck -- Alan of Lille on the little bits that make a difference / Valerie Allen -- Queer hermeneutics and redemption in the cosmology of the Zohar / Marla Segol -- Born under the sign of Venus: phantasmatic desire and the Woman-Who-Never-Was in the Libro de buen amor / Nicholas Ealy -- The double bind of chivalric sexuality in the late-medieval English romance / Ilan Mitchell-Smith -- Divine orgasm and self-blazoning: the fragmented body of the female medieval visionary / Michelle M. Sauer -- Cosmology, sexuality and music in Robert Henryson's "Orpheus and Eurydice" / Jennifer N. Brown -- Cresseid's dignity: cosmology and sexuality in Henryson's "Testament" / Holly Crocker.

"For many medieval authors, sexuality was the ultimate expression of embodiment. Sexuality could be a medium for human communication with the divine, but it could also be a barrier when not conceptualized or practiced correctly. Broad in scope, this collection shows several operating models of body and cosmos. Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious, Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions about sexuality as people are today"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781137037411 (electronic bk.)

Source: 604790Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

573815
Literature, Medieval
--History and criticism.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PN682.S37 / S49 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 808/.02

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