Sexuality In The Middle Ages And Early Modern Times —— New Approaches to a Fundamental Cultural-Historical and Literary-Anthropological Theme

----- 中世纪和早期现代时代性：基础文化历史及文学人类学主题新方法

ISBN: 9783110205749 出版年：2008 页码：912 Classen, Albrecht De Gruyter

Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.