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(3.2) | None | "In this volume Georges Duby - member of the Academie Francaise and one of the preeminent medieval scholars of our time - addresses the theme of love and marriage in the Middle Ages." "These essays enrich Duby's position as the virtual progenitor and unequalled master of medieval social history. Rather than charting the evolution of love as a mere history of feelings, passions, and mentalities independent of or isolated from the history of other components of social education, Duby places this evolution in the material context of social relationships and daily life. Examining the poetry and practice of courtly love and the mores of aristocratic marriages, Duby shows the Middle Ages to be male-dominated. Women were regarded as symbols, as figures of temptation who paradoxically had no desires of their own. Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism - both bastions of masculinity." "Duby also reflects on general issues in the writing of cultural history, on the history of pain and heresy, and gives a personal view of the state of historical research in France over recent generations. He argues that the rapid growth of interest in the history of marriage and the family reflects contemporary disquiet stemming from crises in the familiar structures of late twentieth-century society." "Beautifully written in Duby's characteristically nuanced and powerful style, this collection is the ideal entree into Duby's thinking about marriage and the diversities of love, spousal decorum, family structure, and their cultural context in bodily and spiritual values. It will be of great interest to students in social and cultural history, in medieval and early modern history, and in women's studies. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in the nature of social life in the Middle Ages."--Jacket.… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions "In this volume Georges Duby - member of the Academie Francaise and one of the preeminent medieval scholars of our time - addresses the theme of love and marriage in the Middle Ages." "These essays enrich Duby's position as the virtual progenitor and unequalled master of medieval social history. Rather than charting the evolution of love as a mere history of feelings, passions, and mentalities independent of or isolated from the history of other components of social education, Duby places this evolution in the material context of social relationships and daily life. Examining the poetry and practice of courtly love and the mores of aristocratic marriages, Duby shows the Middle Ages to be male-dominated. Women were regarded as symbols, as figures of temptation who paradoxically had no desires of their own. Duby argues that the structure of sexual relationships took its cue from the family and from feudalism - both bastions of masculinity." "Duby also reflects on general issues in the writing of cultural history, on the history of pain and heresy, and gives a personal view of the state of historical research in France over recent generations. He argues that the rapid growth of interest in the history of marriage and the family reflects contemporary disquiet stemming from crises in the familiar structures of late twentieth-century society." "Beautifully written in Duby's characteristically nuanced and powerful style, this collection is the ideal entree into Duby's thinking about marriage and the diversities of love, spousal decorum, family structure, and their cultural context in bodily and spiritual values. It will be of great interest to students in social and cultural history, in medieval and early modern history, and in women's studies. It will also appeal to a broader audience interested in the nature of social life in the Middle Ages."--Jacket. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Que savons-nous de l'amour au Moyen Age ? Peu de chose en vérité, sinon des mythes. Le mariage, socle de la société féodale, est régi par les pratiques de l'alliance et par la morale aristocratique : les élans du coeur en sont naturellement bannis. L'amour courtois se situe donc hors du champ matrimonial - la fine amour des poèmes est un jeu dont le terrain n'est pas celui des obligations et des dettes, mais des aventures et de la liberté. Pourtant, c'est encore un jeu d'hommes, spécifiquement masculin. Le seigneur, de loin, dissimulé, en connaît tous les rouages et règne sur son déroulement. Les femmes n'y sont jamais que des figurantes - des leurres. Tous les poèmes de l'amour courtois ont été chantés par les hommes, et le désir qu'ils célèbrent fut toujours un désir masculin. Le Moyen Age est mâle, résolument. La forme des relations parentales, les structures de la féodalité l'expliquent abondamment. Tels sont les thèmes dominants des essais qui constituent ce recueil, jalons de l'exploration passionnante d'un territoire mal connu. ![](https://image.librarything.com/pics/transdot.gif) | |
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