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Darrera modificació: 2018-10-18
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Arnau
Cohen-Hanegbi, Naama - Nagy, Piroska (eds.), Pleasure in the Middle Ages, Turnhout, Brepols (International Medieval Research, 24), 2018, xxiii + 386 pp.
- Resum
- This volume explores the diverse manifestations and uses of pleasure in medieval culture. Pleasure is a sensation, an affirmation, a practice, and is at the core of the medieval worldview, no less than pain. Applying a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays collected here analyse the role of pleasure in relation to a variety of subjects such as the human body, love, relationships, education, food, friendship, morality, devotion, and mysticism. They also integrate a wide range of sources including literature (monastic to courtly), medical texts, illuminated prayer books, iconography, and theatrical plays. Each document, each discipline, and thus each essay combine to provide a complex and diversified picture of medieval joys and delights - a picture that shows the extent to which pleasure is engrained in the period's culture. This collection shows how pleasure in the Middle Ages is at once a coveted feeling and a constant moral concern, both the object and the outcome of a constant negotiation between earthly and divine imperatives.
Contents:
- Pleasured bodies:
* Reflections on high medieval monastic pleasures / Esther Cohen
* 'It is full merry in heaven': the pleasurable connotations of 'merriment' in late medieval England / Philippa C. Maddern
* The pleasures and joys of the humoral body in medieval medicine / Fernando Salmón
* Bodily pleasures: late medieval medical counsel in context / Naama Cohen-Hanegbi
* Visual pleasure and the illuminated prayer book / Maeve Doyle
* Abbasid concubines and slave courtesans in Adab discourse: cultural mediators for an ethical appreciation of pleasure / Karen Moukheiber
* Courts and pleasures: the neuroscience of pleasure and the pursuit of favour in twelfth-century courts / William M. Reddy
- Didactic pleasures:
* Taking pleasure in virtues and vices: Alcuin's manual for Count Wido / Barbara H. Rosenwein
* Sin, the business of pleasure, and the pleasure of reading: exemplary narratives and other forms of sinful pleasure in William Peraldus's Summa de vitiis / Richard Newhauser
* The role of pleasure in the acquisition of good virtues: Giles of Rome's idea of education in his De regimine principum (c. 1279) / Noëlle-Laetitia Perret
* Pleasure as an affective tool in pastoral care: the cases of Simone Fidati and Richard Rolle in fourteenth-century Italy and England / Xavier Biron-Ouellet
* Hell: the pleasure of the suffering of others from visions of the afterlife to religious theatre / Élyse Dupras
- Pleasures in God:
* Holy gluttons: Bede and the Carolingians on the pleasures of reading / Zachary Giuliano
* On leeks and onions: Pope Gregory VII and the rejection of pleasure / Ken A. Grant
* Intoxication and the Song of Songs: Bernard of Clairvaux and the rediscovery of Origen in the twelfth century / Constant J. Mews
* Pleasure in medieval Christian mystical literature: the analysis of John of Ruusbroec (1281-1381) and Hadewijch (thirteenth century) / Rob Faesen
- Matèries
- Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Medicina - Psicologia i psiquiatria
Religió - Teologia cristiana
- Notes
- Informació de l'editor
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