03638nam 2200697 a 450 991045271840332120200520144314.01-282-16646-897866138095370-226-70628-110.7208/9780226706283(CKB)2550000000110992(EBL)977912(OCoLC)802269871(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099472(MiAaPQ)EBC977912(DE-B1597)523219(DE-B1597)9780226706283(Au-PeEL)EBL977912(CaPaEBR)ebr10582959(CaONFJC)MIL380953(EXLCZ)99255000000011099220111221d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe making of romantic love[electronic resource] longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE /William M. ReddyChicago ;London University of Chicago Press20121 online resource (450 p.)Chicago studies in practices of meaningDescription based upon print version of record.0-226-70626-5 0-226-70627-3 Includes bibliographical references.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.In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with honor and secrecy, European poets, romance writers, and lovers devised a vision of love as something quite different from desire. Romantic love was thus born as a movement of covert resistance. In The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, William M. Reddy illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent-or innocent enough. Reddy strikes out from this historical moment on an international exploration of love, contrasting the medieval development of romantic love in Europe with contemporaneous eastern traditions in Bengal and Orissa, and in Heian Japan from 900-1200 CE, where one finds no trace of an opposition between love and desire. In this comparative framework, Reddy tells an appealing tale about the rise and fall of various practices of longing, underscoring the uniqueness of the European concept of sexual desire.Chicago studies in practices of meaning.Courtly love in literatureCourtly loveTroubadoursLoveEuropeLoveSouth AsiaLoveJapanElectronic books.Courtly love in literature.Courtly love.Troubadours.LoveLoveLove808.8/03543Reddy William M472722MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452718403321The making of romantic love1980401UNINA