A History Of Eroticism: The Middle Ages And The Gallant Period (Volume II)
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Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few subjects have been as persistently misunderstood, suppressed, or sanitised by mainstream historians as human sexuality, and A History of Eroticism: The Middle Ages and the Gallant Period arrives as a bold corrective, chronicling the rich and surprisingly complex erotic life of Europe across two of its most dramatically contrasting eras. Danish authors Ove Brusendorff and Poul Henningsen guide the reader through the contradictions of medieval courtly love and ecclesiastical repression, before sweeping forward into the flamboyant libertinism of the Gallant Period, where desire shed its shame and became an art form in its own right. The work argues with wit and scholarly authority that eroticism is not a footnote to cultural history but one of its central driving forces, shaping art, literature, religion, and social custom in equal measure. Brusendorff and Henningsen write with a distinctly Scandinavian frankness, presenting their subject neither with prurience nor with prudishness, but with the measured confidence of cultural anthropologists illuminating the universal. Originally published in Denmark to considerable acclaim, this English-language edition — brought to American readers by the iconoclastic Lyle Stuart — remains a landmark in the serious study of human desire. For anyone who believes history is only made in courts and on battlefields, this volume presents a compelling and irresistible counter-argument.
Author: Ove Brusendorff & Poul Henningsen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Lyle Stuart, Inc.
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few subjects have been as persistently misunderstood, suppressed, or sanitised by mainstream historians as human sexuality, and A History of Eroticism: The Middle Ages and the Gallant Period arrives as a bold corrective, chronicling the rich and surprisingly complex erotic life of Europe across two of its most dramatically contrasting eras. Danish authors Ove Brusendorff and Poul Henningsen guide the reader through the contradictions of medieval courtly love and ecclesiastical repression, before sweeping forward into the flamboyant libertinism of the Gallant Period, where desire shed its shame and became an art form in its own right. The work argues with wit and scholarly authority that eroticism is not a footnote to cultural history but one of its central driving forces, shaping art, literature, religion, and social custom in equal measure. Brusendorff and Henningsen write with a distinctly Scandinavian frankness, presenting their subject neither with prurience nor with prudishness, but with the measured confidence of cultural anthropologists illuminating the universal. Originally published in Denmark to considerable acclaim, this English-language edition — brought to American readers by the iconoclastic Lyle Stuart — remains a landmark in the serious study of human desire. For anyone who believes history is only made in courts and on battlefields, this volume presents a compelling and irresistible counter-argument.