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Human sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Douglas Radcliff-Umstead.

Title
Human sexuality in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / edited by Douglas Radcliff-Umstead.
Publication
[Pittsburgh] : Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, [University of Pittsburgh, c1978]

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Additional Authors
  • Radcliff-Umstead, Douglas
  • University of Pittsburgh. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Description
193 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
University of Pittsburgh publications on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance ; v. 4
Subject
  • Geschichte 1100-1800
  • 1450-1600
  • Geschichte 1100-1800
  • European literature > History and criticism
  • Sex in literature
  • Sex > History
  • European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
  • Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
  • Literature, Medieval
  • Literature, Modern
  • Sexual Behavior > history
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
  • Essays.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
[Pt.] 1. The Marriage Game. "To speke of wo that is in mariage": the marital arts in medieval literature / Barbara D. Palmer ; Medieval marriage concepts and Chaucer's good old lovers / James Spisak -- [pt.] 2. Attitudes Toward Sexuality. From celibacy to sexuality: an examination of some medieval and early Renaissance versions of the story of Robert the Devil / Dorothy S. McCoy ; Erotic sin in the Divine comedy / Douglas Radcliff-Umstead ; Beliefs about human sexual function in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Thomas G. Benedek ; Aspects of androgyny in the Renaissance / Jerome Schwartz -- [pt.] 3. Varieties of Erotic Relationships. Varieties of amorous experience: homosexual and heterosexual relationships in Marlowe and Shakespeare / Marilyn J. Thorssen ; Sex, reciprocity and self-sacrifice in The merchant of Venice / Marianne Novy ; The picaresque fortunes of the erotic / Heidi E. Faletti -- Appendix. The origin of the epithet / John F. Haskins.
LCCN
^^^79111015^
OCLC
  • 5775226
  • SCSB-11879985
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library