The language of sex: five voices from Northern France around 1200
This innovative study by a premier scholar of the Middle Ages brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion an unusually provocative, comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world. John Baldwin introduces five representative voic...
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| Zusammenfassung: | This innovative study by a premier scholar of the Middle Ages brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion an unusually provocative, comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world. John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the Prose Salernitan Questions, for the medical theories of Galen; Andre the Chaplain, for the Ovidian literature of the schools; Jean Renart, for the contemporary romances; and Jean Bodel, for the emerging voices of the fabliaux. Juxtaposing their views on a range of essential subjects, including social position, the sexual body, desire and act, and procreation, Baldwin allows us into the discussion of sexuality inside the church and schools of the clergy, in high and popular culture of the laity The result is a fascinating dialogue of how these representatives agreed or disagreed with, ignored, imitated, or responded to each other at a critical moment in the development of European ideas about sexual desire, fulfillment, morality, and gender. This heterogeneous discussion also offers a startling glimpse into the construction of gender specific to this moment, when men and women enjoyed equal status in sexual matters, if nowhere else. In a pervasively patriarchal society, where male dominance was virtually unquestioned, sexual relations appear here as an exception. In varied ways, each spokesman argues for the equality of men and women in sexual matters, a proposition that received scientific undergirding from the Galenic theory of the two sperm distributed between male and female - and that would give way in the thirteenth century to the Aristotelian theory of the single male sperm The turn of the twelfth century thus represented a last privileged moment for gender equality for centuries to come. Taken together, the five voices in this book extend their reach, encompass their subject, and point to a center where social reality lies. By articulating language at its varied depths, this remarkable study takes its place alongside groundbreaking works by James Brundage, John Boswell, and Leah Otis in extending our understanding of sexuality and sexual behavior in the Middle Ages |
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Prefatory Words ... ix
Introduction xiii
1 The Five Discourses 1
Pierre the Chanter and the Augustinian Tradition
The Prose Salernitan Questions and the Galenic Tradition
Andre the Chaplain and the Ovidian Tradition
Jean Renart and the Tradition of Romance
Jean Bodel and the Fabliaux Tradition
2 Participants: The Sociology of Sexuality 43
The Physiological Parameters
The Social Parameters
The Marital Parameters
On the Margin: Prostitutes and Holy Matrons
3 The Sexual Body 88
The Learned Body
The Body Concealed
The Body Exposed
4 Sexual Desire 116
Concupiscentia: The Theology of Desire
Delectatio: The Physiology of Desire
Passio: The Ovidian Tradition
Joie et dolor: Their Interplay in the Romance Tradition
Talent: The Fabliaux
The Supremacy of Desire: Noncoital Sexuality and
the Desire for God
vii
Contents
5 Coitus 173
Myths of Origins: Poets and Theologians
The Physiology of Coitus
Chastity
Sexual Modesty
Sexual Techniques
Nonconsensual Coitus: From Seduction to Rape
6 Children 206
The Physiology of Reproduction: From Conception
to Birth
The Natalist Policy of Churchmen
Restraints on Fecundity
The Politics of Lineage: The Romances
Conclusions: Sexuality, Gender, and History 225
Sexuality
Gender
History: A Postlude
Appendix 1: Robert of Courson, Summa [XLII, 31, 32] 239
Appendix 2: Pierre the Chanter, Verbum abbreviatum
(Long Version) 247
Appendix 3: Pierre the Chanter, Questiones 251
Table 1: Fabliaux Containing Sexually Active Characters
Classified by Social Group 252
Table 2: Fabliaux Containing Sexual Encounters Classified
by Ecclesiastical Categories 254
Short Titles 255
Notes 267
Index 325
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| spelling | Baldwin, John W. 1929-2015 Verfasser (DE-588)104844404X aut The language of sex five voices from Northern France around 1200 John W. Baldwin Chicago u.a. Univ. of Chicago Press 1994 XXVIII, 331 S. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier The Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society This innovative study by a premier scholar of the Middle Ages brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion an unusually provocative, comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world. John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the Prose Salernitan Questions, for the medical theories of Galen; Andre the Chaplain, for the Ovidian literature of the schools; Jean Renart, for the contemporary romances; and Jean Bodel, for the emerging voices of the fabliaux. Juxtaposing their views on a range of essential subjects, including social position, the sexual body, desire and act, and procreation, Baldwin allows us into the discussion of sexuality inside the church and schools of the clergy, in high and popular culture of the laity The result is a fascinating dialogue of how these representatives agreed or disagreed with, ignored, imitated, or responded to each other at a critical moment in the development of European ideas about sexual desire, fulfillment, morality, and gender. This heterogeneous discussion also offers a startling glimpse into the construction of gender specific to this moment, when men and women enjoyed equal status in sexual matters, if nowhere else. In a pervasively patriarchal society, where male dominance was virtually unquestioned, sexual relations appear here as an exception. In varied ways, each spokesman argues for the equality of men and women in sexual matters, a proposition that received scientific undergirding from the Galenic theory of the two sperm distributed between male and female - and that would give way in the thirteenth century to the Aristotelian theory of the single male sperm The turn of the twelfth century thus represented a last privileged moment for gender equality for centuries to come. Taken together, the five voices in this book extend their reach, encompass their subject, and point to a center where social reality lies. By articulating language at its varied depths, this remarkable study takes its place alongside groundbreaking works by James Brundage, John Boswell, and Leah Otis in extending our understanding of sexuality and sexual behavior in the Middle Ages Geschichte 1185-1215 gnd rswk-swf Seksualiteit gtt Alltag, Brauchtum Geschichte Sexualität Sex customs France, Northern History Sex customs France, Northern History Sources Sexualverhalten (DE-588)4116485-4 gnd rswk-swf Sexualität (DE-588)4054684-6 gnd rswk-swf Altfranzösisch (DE-588)4001516-6 gnd rswk-swf Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd rswk-swf Erotik Motiv (DE-588)4123157-0 gnd rswk-swf Frankreich France Social life and customs To 1328 Frankreich Nord (DE-588)4110086-4 gnd rswk-swf (DE-588)4135952-5 Quelle gnd-content Frankreich Nord (DE-588)4110086-4 g Sexualverhalten (DE-588)4116485-4 s Geschichte 1185-1215 z DE-604 Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 s Sexualität (DE-588)4054684-6 s Altfranzösisch (DE-588)4001516-6 s Erotik Motiv (DE-588)4123157-0 s HBZ Datenaustausch application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=006491557&sequence=000002&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis |
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| topic | Seksualiteit gtt Alltag, Brauchtum Geschichte Sexualität Sex customs France, Northern History Sex customs France, Northern History Sources Sexualverhalten (DE-588)4116485-4 gnd Sexualität (DE-588)4054684-6 gnd Altfranzösisch (DE-588)4001516-6 gnd Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5 gnd Erotik Motiv (DE-588)4123157-0 gnd |
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