Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia

ISBN-13: 9780415762311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 282 str.

Eukene Lacarra Lanz;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This is a collection of essays exploring marriage, love and sexuality in the Iberian Peninsula from medieval to early modern times. Subjects vary from shrew taming to wetnursing to writing and sodomy in an Inquisition trial.

Spis treści

Part 1 From Maidenhood to the Marriage State; Chapter 1 Marriage and Sexuality in Al-Andalus, Manuela Marín; Chapter 2 Intimate Violence: Shrew Taming as Wedding Ritual in the Conde Lucanor, Louise O. Vasvári; Chapter 3 The Consells-Consejos on Marriage and Their Broader Sentimental Context, Antonio Cortijo Ocaña; Part 2 Playing the Game of Wife and Mother; Chapter 4 Pawn or Player?: Violant of Bar and the Game of Matrimonial Politics in the Crown of Aragon (1380–1396), Dawn Bratsch-Prince; Chapter 5 Milking the Poor: Wet-nursing and the Sexual Economy of Early Modern Spain, Emilie L. Bergmann; Part 3 Love and Sexuality; Chapter 6 Natural Love in Early Renaissance Spanish Theater: Serafina, an Anonymous Comedia of 1521, David R. Castillo; Chapter 7 “Un engaño a los ojos”: Sex and Allegory in La Lozana andaluza, Manuel da Costa Fontes; Chapter 8 Changing Boundaries of Licit and Illicit Unions: Concubinage and Prostitution, Eukene Lacarra Lanz; Part 4 Female Approaches to Power; Chapter 9 Writing and Sodomy in the Inquisitorial Trial (1495–1496) of Tecla Servent, Ronald Surtz; Chapter 10 “Moral Pornography”: Angela Carter and María de Zayas, Marina S. Brownlee; Afterword, Gwendolyn Barnes-Karol, Nicholas Spadaccini;

O autorze

Eukene Lacarra Lanz is Professor of Medieval Spanish Literature at the University of Basque Country in Spain.