The making of romantic love : longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE / William M. Reddy.
Material type: TextSeries: Chicago studies in practices of meaningPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (x, 439 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226706283
- 0226706281
- 1282166468
- 9781282166462
- 9786613809537
- 6613809535
- Courtly love in literature
- Courtly love
- Troubadours
- Love -- Europe
- Love -- South Asia
- Love -- Japan
- Amour courtois dans la littérature
- Amour courtois
- Amour -- Europe
- Amour -- Asie méridionale
- Amour -- Japon
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- General
- Courtly love
- Courtly love in literature
- Love
- Troubadours
- Europe
- Japan
- South Asia
- Literatur
- Romantische Liebe Motiv
- Begierde Motiv
- Troubadour
- Kulturvergleich
- Europa
- Japan
- Südasien
- Kärlek -- historia
- Hövisk poesi
- Trubadurer
- 808.8/03543 23
- PN682.C6 R444 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references.
The emergence of courtly love in Europe -- Aristocratic speech, the Gregorian reform, and the first troubadour -- Trobairitz and troubadours and the shadow religion -- Narratives of true love and twelfth-century common sense -- Points of comparison -- The Bhakti troubadour: Vaishnavism in twelfth-century Bengal and Orissa -- Elegance and compassion in Heian Japan.
Here, Reddy illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent - or innocent enough. Reddy strikes out from this historical moment on an exploration of love, contrasting the medieval development of romantic love in Europe with contemporaneous eastern traditions in Bengal.
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