Katherine Crawford

The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of how Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge transformed notions of sex and sexuality in France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9780521749503
• ISBN-10: 0521749506
• Artikelnr.: 28521746

Autorenporträt

KATHERINE CRAWFORD is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France (2004) and European Sexualities, 1400-1800 (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: sexual culture? France? Renaissance?
1. The renaissance of sex: Orpheus, mythography and making sexual meaning
2. Heavens below: astrology, generation and sexual (un)certainty
3. Neoplatonism and the making of heterosexuality
4. Cupid makes you stupid: 'bad' poetry in the French Renaissance
5. Politics, promiscuity and potency: managing the king's sexual reputation
Conclusion: dirty thoughts
Bibliography.