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Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era. [publisher's description]

Love --- Misogyny --- Patriarchy --- Social history --- Women --- Androcracy --- Patriarchal families --- Fathers --- Families --- Male domination (Social structure) --- Patrilineal kinship --- Women-hating --- Misanthropy --- Sexual animosity --- History. --- History --- #GROL:MEDO-396'04/14' --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- Europe --- Femmes --- Histoire sociale --- Misogynie --- Patriarcat (Sociologie) --- Amour --- Histoire --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- romantic love, romance, misogyny, medieval, gender studies, feminism, women, idealization, purity, liberation, aesthetics, theology, virginity, feminine flesh, courtly, chivalry, church fathers, poets, middle ages, social history, nonfiction, literary theory, molestiae nuptiarum, yahwist creation, heiress, dowager, possessions, finance, economics, money, perfection, power, french lay, male indiscretion, infidelity, sexuality, monogamy.