LEADER 03601nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910815380803321 005 20240516204949.0 010 $a1-282-16646-8 010 $a9786613809537 010 $a0-226-70628-1 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226706283 035 $a(CKB)2550000000110992 035 $a(EBL)977912 035 $a(OCoLC)802269871 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000099472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977912 035 $a(DE-B1597)523219 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226706283 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL977912 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10582959 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL380953 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000110992 100 $a20111221d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe making of romantic love $elonging and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE /$fWilliam M. Reddy 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (450 p.) 225 1 $aChicago studies in practices of meaning 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-70626-5 311 $a0-226-70627-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aIn the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a courtly culture that was already preoccupied with honor and secrecy, European poets, romance writers, and lovers devised a vision of love as something quite different from desire. Romantic love was thus born as a movement of covert resistance. In The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, William M. Reddy illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent-or innocent enough. Reddy strikes out from this historical moment on an international exploration of love, contrasting the medieval development of romantic love in Europe with contemporaneous eastern traditions in Bengal and Orissa, and in Heian Japan from 900-1200 CE, where one finds no trace of an opposition between love and desire. In this comparative framework, Reddy tells an appealing tale about the rise and fall of various practices of longing, underscoring the uniqueness of the European concept of sexual desire. 410 0$aChicago studies in practices of meaning. 606 $aCourtly love in literature 606 $aCourtly love 606 $aTroubadours 606 $aLove$zEurope 606 $aLove$zSouth Asia 606 $aLove$zJapan 615 0$aCourtly love in literature. 615 0$aCourtly love. 615 0$aTroubadours. 615 0$aLove 615 0$aLove 615 0$aLove 676 $a808.8/03543 700 $aReddy$b William M$0472722 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815380803321 996 $aThe making of romantic love$94054317 997 $aUNINA