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James A. Schultz Courtly love, the love of courtliness, and the history of sexuality
One of the great achievements of the Middle Ages, Europe’s courtly culture gave the world the tournament, the festival, the knighting ceremony, and also courtly love. But courtly love has strangely been ignored by historians of sexuality. Courtly love, Schultz finds, was provoked not by the biological and intrinsic factors that play such a large role in our contemporary thinking about sexuality-sex difference or desire—but by extrinsic signs of class: bodies that were visibly noble and behaviors...
Engels | 242 pagina's | University of Chicago Press, Chicago [etc.] | 2006
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