Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor KATHERINE CRAWFORD is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France (2004) and European Sexualities, 1400-1800 (2007). Klappentext An examination of how Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge transformed notions of sex and sexuality in France. Zusammenfassung This book examines how! as Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge rippled outward from Italy! French notions of masculinity! sexual agency! and procreation were fundamentally changed. Katherine Crawford reveals that humanists! poets! and political figures contributed to the rapid alteration of sexual ideas to suit French cultural needs. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: sexual culture? France? Renaissance?; 1. The renaissance of sex: Orpheus, mythography and making sexual meaning; 2. Heavens below: astrology, generation and sexual (un)certainty; 3. Neoplatonism and the making of heterosexuality; 4. Cupid makes you stupid: 'bad' poetry in the French Renaissance; 5. Politics, promiscuity and potency: managing the king's sexual reputation; Conclusion: dirty thoughts; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Crawford, Katherine (Vanderbilt University Crawford
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521749503
• ISBN: 978-0-521-74950-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories; Cambridge Social and Cultural; Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories; Cambridge Social and Cultural
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories