Pleasure in the Middle Ages
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Word Count
95,750 words, Guess
Page Count
383 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139782503575209
- ISBN-10250357520X
- OCLC Control Number1031399669
- Better World Books9782503575209
- Open LibraryOL37973604M
Classifications
- LCCGV603
- LCCCB351 .P54 2018
Description
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.
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