Sexuality in the Middle Ages and the early modern times: new approaches to a fundamental cultural-historical and literary-anthropological theme

Contents

Cultural Significance of Sexuality in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Beyond. A Secret Continuous Undercurrent or a Dominant Phenomenon of the Premodern World? Or: The Irrepressibility of Sex Yesterday and Today / Albrecht Classen -- Naked Men in Medieval German Literature and Art: Anthropological, Cultural-Historical, and Mental-Historical Investigations / Albrecht Classen -- Exposed Body and the Gendered Blemmye: Reading the Wonders of the East / Asa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim -- Lust ohne Liebe: Roswitha von Gandersheim und geschlechtsspezifische Strafen fur sundigen Sex / Eva Parra Membrives -- Sex and Fertility in Marie de France's Lais / Molly Robinson Kelly -- "Good Lovin'": The Language of Erotic Desire and Fulfillment in Gottfried's Tristan / Christopher R. Clason -- Limits of Reading Innuendo in Medieval Literature / Siegfried Christoph -- Singing Desire: Musical Innuendo in Troubadour and Trouvere Song / Julia Wingo Shinnick -- Vision of "Sexuality," "Obscenity," or "Nudity"? Differences Between Regions on the Example of Corbels / Christina Weising -- Heloise, Monastic Temptation, and Memoria: Rethinking Autobiography, Sexual Experience, and Ethics / Juanita Feros Ruys -- Gruppensex im Untergrund: Chaotische Ketzer und kirchliche Keuschheit im Mittelalter / Peter Dinzelbacher -- Desire, Parody, and Sexual Mores in the Ending of Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon: An Invitation Through the Looking Glass / Suzanne Kocher -- Feminine Sexuality and the Crusades / Andrew Holt -- Sexual Lives of Medieval Norman Clerics: A New Perspective on Clerical Sexuality / Jennifer D. Thibodeaux -- Feminine Sexuality in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle / Stacey L. Hahn -- Sausages, Nuts, and Eggs: Food Imagery, the Body, and Sexuality in the Old French Fabliaux / Sarah Gordon -- Sex and the Sacraments in Tristan de Nanteuil / Paula Leverage -- Inseminating Ruth in the Morgan Old Testament Picture Book: A Romance of the Crusades / Alexa Sand -- Rape of Men and other "Lessons" about Sex in the Libro de buen amor / Connie L. Scarborough -- Oral Sex in the Songs of Oswald von Wolkenstein: Did It Really Happen? / Rasma Lazda-Cazers -- Intersecting the Ideal and the Real, Chivalry and Rape, Respect and Dishonor: The Problematics of Sexual Relationships in Troilus and Criseyde and Sir Tristrem / Jean E. Jost -- Caught in the Act: Malory's "Sir Gareth" and the Construction of Sexual Performance / Daniel F. Pigg -- Sexual Desire and Pornography: Literary Imagination in a Satirical Context. Gender Conflict, Sexual Identity, and Misogyny in "Das Nonnenturnier" / Albrecht Classen -- Prosecution of Sex in Late Medieval Troyes / Sara McDougall -- Das Freudenhaus im Mittelalter [The Brothel in the Middle Ages]: In der stat was gesessen / ain unrainer pulian / Gertrud Blaschitz -- Prescription, Passion, and Patronage in Early Modern Toledo: Legitimizing Illicit Love at Santo Domingo de Silos "el Antiguo," Toledo / Stephanie Fink De Backer -- Fertilizing the French Vernacular: Procreation, Warfare, and Authorship in Jean de Meun, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Rabelais / Reinier Leushuis -- Deadly Sex and Sexy Death in Early Modern French Literature / Kathleen M. Llewellyn -- From the Clitoris to the Breast: The Eclipse of the Female Libido in Early Modern Art, Literature, and Philosophy / Allison P. Coudert.