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Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a
liberation from--or antidote to--ten centuries of misogyny. In this
major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates
how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the
romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a
broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the
Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized,
the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in
theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from
the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the
continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the
idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic,
and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny
into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside
its earlier avatar until the current era. This startling study will
be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to
historians of culture and gender.
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