Pleasure in the Middle Ages

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2018] and ©2018

Subject:

Civilization, Medieval
Pleasure - Social aspects - History - To 1500
Pleasure - Religious aspects - History - To 1500
Senses and sensation - History - To 1500
Europe - Social life and customs

Contributor:

Cohen-Hanegbi, Naama. editor
Nagy, Piroska (College teacher), editor

ISBN:

9782503575209 and 250357520X

Series:

International medieval research (Series)

Description:

xxiii, 383 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Reflections on high medieval monastic pleasures / Esther Cohen -- 'It is full merry in heaven' : the pleasurable connotations of 'merriment' in late medieval England / Philippa C. Maddern -- The pleasures and joys of the humoral body in medieval medicine / Fernando Salmón -- Bodily pleasures: late medieval medical counsel in context / Naama Cohen-Hanegbi -- Visual pleasure and the illuminated prayer book / Maeve Doyle -- Abbasid concubines and slave courtesans in Adab discourse : cultural mediators for an ethical appreciation of pleasure / Karen Moukheiber -- Courts and pleasures : the neuroscience of pleasure and the pursuit of favour in twelfth-century courts / William M. Reddy -- Taking pleasure in virtues and vices : Alcuin's manual for Count Wido / Barbara H. Rosenwein -- Sin, the business of pleasure, and the pleasure of reading : exemplary narratives and other forms of sinful pleasure in William Peraldus's Summa de vitiis / Richard Newhauser -- The role of pleasure in the acquisition of good virtues : Giles of Rome's idea of education in his De regimine principum (c. 1279) / Noëlle-Laetitia Perret -- Pleasure as an affective tool in pastoral care : the cases of Simone Fidati and Richard Rolle in fourteenth-century Italy and England / Xavier Biron-Ouellet -- Hell: the pleasure of the suffering of others from visions of the afterlife to religious theatre / Élyse Dupras -- Holy gluttons: Bede and the Carolingians on the pleasures of reading / Zachary Giuliano -- On leeks and onions : Pope Gregory VII and the rejection of pleasure / Ken A. Grant -- Intoxication and the Song of Songs : Bernard of Clairvaux and the rediscovery of Origen in the twelfth century / Constant J. Mews -- Pleasure in medieval Christian mystical literature: the analysis of John of Ruusbroec (1281-1381) and Hadewijch (thirteenth century) / Rob Faesen

Summary:

"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."-- Back cover

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

GT120 .P54 2018

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