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The Making of Romantic Love (Paperback)
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The Making of Romantic Love (Paperback)
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In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a
thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at
eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge
from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a
courtly culture that was already preoccupied with honor and
secrecy, European poets, romance writers, and lovers devised a
vision of love as something quite different from desire. Romantic
love was thus born as a movement of covert resistance. In "The
Making of Romantic Love", William M. 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 international exploration of love,
contrasting the medieval development of romantic love in Europe
with contemporaneous eastern traditions in Bengal and Orissa, and
in Heian Japan from 900 to 1200 CE, where one finds no trace of an
opposition between love and desire. In this comparative framework,
Reddy tells an appealing tale about the rise and fall of various
practices of longing, underscoring the uniqueness of the European
concept of sexual desire.
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