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Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2004 Hardback, XVIII+193 p., 1 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503513966.
It is not surprising that the development of the internet and related electronic technologies has coincided with an academic interest in the history of reading. Using and transmitting texts in new ways, scholars have become increasingly aware of the precise ways in which manuscripts and printed books transmitted texts to early modern readers. This volume collects nine essays on reading and literacy in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Topics include: the function of marginalia in vernacular medieval manuscripts; the trope of reading in the fourteenth century; the definition of literacy in early modern England; marginalia and reading practices in early modern Italy; revision of medieval texts in the Renaissance; the prevalence of translated French poetry in sixteenth-century England; the use of poems as props in the plays of Shakespeare; the private reading of the playscripts of masques; and early-modern women's reading practices. These essays demonstrate the energy and excitement of the rapidly developing field of the history of reading. They will appeal to those interested in European cultural history, the transition from manuscript to print culture, the history of literacy, and the history of the book. New.
Eroticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Magic, Marriage, and Midwifery
, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2016 Hardcover with dusjacket, XV+171 p., 17 b/w ill., 152 x 229 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503567884.
The essays in this volume explore varied manifestations of medieval and early modern sexuality. Magic rings; seductive she-devils; satyrs bound and whipped on stage; a woman sexually coerced in the confessional; a boy caught masturbating over a midwifery manual; a marriage of true minds between two men; a prince led to repentance at the sight of a naked girl prepared to give her life for his. These varied manifestations of medieval and early modern sexuality ? each at the center of one of the essays in this volume ? suggest the ubiquity and diversity of eroticism in the period. The erotic is the stuff of legend, but also of daily life. It is inextricable from relations of power and subordination and is plays a fundamental role in the heirarchical social structures of the period. The erotic is also very much a part of the spiritual realm, often in morally ambiguous ways. The seven essays collected in this volume explore the role the erotic played in early modern notions of happiness or fulfillment, in clerical life, in Jewish legend, heretical magic and Christian marriage, in poetry, on the public stage, and in medical manuals. Table of Contents Introduction: Magic, Marriage, Midwifery and More ? IAN FREDERICK MOULTON The Erotic and the Quest for Happiness in the Middle Ages: What Everybody Aspires To and Hardly Anyone Truly Achieves; Medieval Eroticism and Mysticism ? ALBRECHT CLASSEN The Erotic as Lewdness in Spanish and Mexican Religious Culture During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ? ASUNCION LAVRIN Disarticulating Lilith: Notions of God?s Evil in Jewish Folklore ? SHARONAH FREDRICK Sex and the Satyr in the Pastoral Tradition: Isabella Andreini?s La Mirtilla as Pro-Feminist Erotica ? ROSALIND KERR Erotic Magic: Rings, Engraved Precious Gems and Masculine Anxiety? LILIANA LEOPARDI Figuring Marital Queerness in Shakespeare?s Sonnets ? DAVID L. ORVIS Sexual Education and Erotica in the Popular Midwifery Manuals of Thomas Raynalde and Nicholas Culpeper ? CHANTELLE THAUVETTE
