Pleasure in the Middle Ages
"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 source...
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols,
[2018]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | International medieval research / Art history subseries
volume 24 |
| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | International medieval research / Art history subseries |
| Schlagworte: | Pleasure Senses and sensation Civilization, Medieval Freude Vergnügen Geschichte 500-1500 Geschichte |
| Umfang: | xxiii, 383 Seiten |
| Zusammenfassung: | "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 |
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| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 383 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9782503575209 250357520X 9782503575216 2503575218 |