TY - BOOK ID - 78374018 TI - Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times PY - 2008 SN - 1283396971 9786613396976 3110209403 9783110209402 9781283396974 9783110205749 3110205742 6613396974 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Sex in literature. KW - Literature, Medieval KW - European literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Art History. KW - Early-Modern Culture and Literature. KW - Medieval Culture and Literature. KW - Sexuality. KW - Social History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78374018 AB - Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times. ER -