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Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing

By Lara Farina (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2006
ISBN
978-1-349-63547-4, 978-1-137-04931-5
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
19 MB (19424289 bytes)
Series
The New Middle Ages
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 179\183
Time added
2017-11-21 00:00:00
general; Literary HistoryMedieval Literature; History of Medieval Europe; R

Description

Erotic Discourse and Early English Religious Writing discusses the role of sexuality in medieval devotional practice, looking in particular at religious writings circulating in England in the tenth to thirteenth centuries. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-14 Before Affection: Christ I and the Social Erotic....Pages 15-33 Dirty Words: Ancrene Wisse and the Sexual Interior....Pages 35-61 Mystical Desire, Erotic Economy, and the Wooing Group....Pages 63-86 The “Popularization” of the Affective?: Friar Thomas of Hales and His Audience....Pages 87-111 Back Matter....Pages 113-179

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