Making of Romantic Love Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE

Name: Making of Romantic Love Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
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ISBN: 9780226706276

ISBN-10: 0226706273

ISBN-13: 9780226706276

Edition: 2012

Authors: William M. Reddy

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In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with honor and secrecy, European poets, romance writers, and lovers devised a vision of love as something quite different from desire. Romantic love was thus born as a movement of covert resistance. InThe Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, William M. Reddy illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it…

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List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.91" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

William M. Reddy is the William T. Laprade Professor of History and professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of a number of historical works, including The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Emergence of Courtly Love in Europe



Aristocratic Speech, the Gregorian Reform, and the First Troubadour



Trobairitz and Troubadours and the Shadow Religion



Narratives of True Love and Twelfth-Century Common Sense



Points of Comparison



The Bhakti Troubadour: Vaishnavism in Twelfth-Century Bengal and Orissa



Elegance and Compassion in Heian Japan


Conclusion


Appendix: Transliterated South Asian Words


Bibliography


Index