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Medieval Sex Lives - The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders
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Medieval Sex Lives - The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders
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Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural
product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring
how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and
the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and poetry was
composed and performed. In a focused analysis of the Oxford
Bodelian Library's Douce 308 manuscript—a fourteenth-century
compilation that includes over five hundred Old French lyrics
composed over two centuries alongside a narrative account of
elaborate courtly festivities centered on a week-long
tournament—Elizabeth Eva Leach explores two distinct but related
lines of inquiry: first, why the lyric tradition of "courtly love"
had such a long and successful history in Western European culture;
and, second, why the songs in the Bodleian manuscript would have
been so important to the book's compilers, owners, and readers. The
manuscript's lack of musical notation and authorial attributions
make it unusual among Old French songbooks; its arrangement of the
lyrics by genre invites inquiry into the relationship between this
long musical tradition and the emotional and sexual lives of its
readers. Combining an original account of the manuscript's contents
and their likely social milieu with in-depth musical and poetic
analyses, Leach proposes that lyrics, whether read or heard aloud,
provided a fertile means of propagating and enabling various sexual
scripts in the Middle Ages. Drawing on musicology, literary
history, and the sociology and psychology of sexuality, Medieval
Sex Lives presents a provocative hypothesis about the power of
courtly songs to model, inspire, and support sexual behaviors and
fantasies.
General
Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
December 2023 |
Authors: |
Elizabeth Eva Leach
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
324 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-7187-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-5017-7187-6 |
Barcode: |
9781501771873 |
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