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The making of romantic love [electronic resource] : longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE / William M. Reddy.
Material type:
TextSeries: Chicago studies in practices of meaningPublication details: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012.Description: x, 439 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 808.8/03543 23
- PN682.C6 R444 2012
Contents:
The emergence of courtly love in Europe -- Aristocratic speech, the Gregorian reform, and the first troubadour -- Trobairitz and troubadours and the shadow religion -- Narratives of true love and twelfth-century common sense -- Points of comparison -- The Bhakti troubadour: Vaishnavism in twelfth-century Bengal and Orissa -- Elegance and compassion in Heian Japan.
