Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

Herausgeber: Lanz, Eukene Lacarra

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating collection of essays addressed the long-standing need for an exploration of marriage, love and sexuality in the Iberian Peninsula from medieval to early modern times. Subjects vary from shrew taming to wetnursing to writing and sodomy in an Inquisition trial. This well-written and edited collection will be an essential resource for all who seek to learn more about human history, human literature and human sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415936347
• ISBN-10: 0415936349
• Artikelnr.: 22270085

Autorenporträt

Eukene Lacarra Lanz is Professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of Basque Country in Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 From Maidenhood to the Marriage State; Chapter 1 Marriage and
Sexuality in Al-Andalus, Manuela Marín; Chapter 2 Intimate Violence: Shrew
Taming as Wedding Ritual in the Conde Lucanor, Louise O. Vasvári; Chapter 3
The Consells-Consejos on Marriage and Their Broader Sentimental Context,
Antonio Cortijo Ocaña; Part 2 Playing the Game of Wife and Mother; Chapter
4 Pawn or Player?: Violant of Bar and the Game of Matrimonial Politics in
the Crown of Aragon (1380-1396), Dawn Bratsch-Prince; Chapter 5 Milking the
Poor: Wet-nursing and the Sexual Economy of Early Modern Spain, Emilie L.
Bergmann; Part 3 Love and Sexuality; Chapter 6 Natural Love in Early
Renaissance Spanish Theater: Serafina, an Anonymous Comedia of 1521, David
R. Castillo; Chapter 7 "Un engaño a los ojos": Sex and Allegory in La
Lozana andaluza, Manuel da Costa Fontes; Chapter 8 Changing Boundaries of
Licit and Illicit Unions: Concubinage and Prostitution, Eukene Lacarra
Lanz; Part 4 Female Approaches to Power; Chapter 9 Writing and Sodomy in
the Inquisitorial Trial (1495-1496) of Tecla Servent, Ronald Surtz; Chapter
10 "Moral Pornography": Angela Carter and María de Zayas, Marina S.
Brownlee; Afterword, Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol, Nicholas Spadaccini;