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 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.