Eroticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : magic, marriage, and midwifery / edited by Ian Frederick Moulton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moulton, Ian Frederick, 1964- editor.

Series:

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 39.

Arizona studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotica--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Erotica.

Erotica--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Sex--History--To 1500--Congresses.

Sex.

Sex--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Middle Ages--Congresses.

Middle Ages.

Renaissance--Congresses.

Renaissance.

Erotica--Religious aspects.

Sex--Religious aspects.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Turnhout] : Brepols, [2016].

Summary:

This series presents collection of essay on major themes in medieval and Renaissance studies such as medievalism and its Renaissance counterpart, future trends in research, individual and cultural identity, peace and negotiation, material culture, fear, varieties of devotion, and reading and literary. These themes have been the focus of the annual conference sponsored by ACMRS (the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe). Essays for the ASMAR collections are both revised and expanded versions of selected papers delivered at the conference and papers solicited from other scholars in the field. In addition to collections of essays the series publishes occasional monograph volumes. Magic rings; seductive she-devils; satyrs bound and whipped on stage; a woman sexually coerced in the confessional; a boy caught masturbating over a midwifery manual; a marriage of true minds between two men; a prince led to repentance at the sight of a naked girl prepared to give her life for his. These varied manifestations of medieval and early modern sexuality - each at the center of one of the essays in this volume - suggest the ubiquity and diversity of eroticism in the period. The erotic is the stuff of legend, but also of daily life. It is inextricable from relations of power and subordination and plays a fundamental role in the heirarchical social structures of the period. The erotic is also very much a part of the spiritual realm, often in morally ambiguous ways. The seven essays collected in this volume explore the role the erotic played in medieval and early modern notions of happiness or fulfillment, in clerical life, in Jewish legend, in heretical magic and Christian marriage, in poetry, on the public stage, and in medical manuals. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Magic, marriage and midwifery: Eroticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / Ian Frederick Moulton

The erotic and the quest for happiness in the Middle Ages: What everybody aspires to and hardly anyone truly achieves; medieval eroticism and mysticism / Albrecht Classen

The erotic as lewdness in Spanish and Mexican religious culture during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Asunción Lavrin

Disarticulating Lilith: notions of God's evil in Jewish folklore / Sharonah Fredrick

Sex and the satyr in the pastoral tradition: Isabella Andreini's La Mirtilla as pro-feminist erotica / Rosalind Kerr

Erotic magic: Rings, engraved precious gems and masculine anxiety / Liliana Leopardi

Figuring marital queerness in Shakespeare's Sonnets / David L. Orvis

Sexual education and erotica in the popular midwifery manuals of Thomas Raynalde and Nicholas Culpeper / Chantelle Thauvette.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9782503567884

2503567886

OCLC:

952161825

Publisher Number:

9782503567884