LEADER 04182nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910828341903321 005 20240418022245.0 010 $a1-283-21109-2 010 $a9786613211095 010 $a0-8122-0062-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200621 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050960 035 $a(OCoLC)759158243 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491998 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000543592 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324896 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543592 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10531079 035 $a(PQKB)10847651 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3102 035 $a(DE-B1597)448914 035 $a(OCoLC)979591224 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200621 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441541 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491998 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321109 035 $a(OCoLC)748533324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441541 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050960 100 $a19990226d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnnobling love $ein search of a lost sensibility /$fC. Stephen Jaeger 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 225 1 $aMiddle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1691-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Charismatic love and friendship -- pt. 2. Sublime love -- pt. 3. Unsolvable problems-- romantic solutions : the romantic dilemma. 330 $a"Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, son of the King of England, remained with Philip, the King of France, who so honored him for so long that they ate every day at the same table and from the same dish, and at night their beds did not separate them. And the King of France loved him as his own soul; and they loved each other so much that the King of England was absolutely astonished at the vehement love between them and marveled at what it could mean."Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? An extraordinary amount, as Stephen Jaeger demonstrates.Unlike current efforts to read medieval culture through modern mores, Stephen Jaeger contends that love and sex in the Middle Ages relate to each other very differently than in the postmedieval period. Love was not only a mode of feeling and desiring, or an exclusively private sentiment, but a way of behaving and a social ideal. It was a form of aristocratic self-representation, its social function to show forth virtue in lovers, to raise their inner worth, to increase their honor and enhance their reputation. To judge from the number of royal love relationships documented, it seems normal, rather than exceptional, that a king loved his favorites, and the courtiers and advisors, clerical and lay, loved their superiors and each other.Jaeger makes an elaborate, accessible, and certain to be controversial, case for the centrality of friendship and love as aristocratic lay, clerical, and monastic ideals. Ennobling Love is a magisterial work, a book that charts the social constructions of passion and sexuality in our own times, no less than in the Middle Ages. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLove in literature 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$vTranslations into English 606 $aNobility of character$vLiterary collections 606 $aNobility of character in literature 606 $aLove$vLiterary collections 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLove in literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval 615 0$aNobility of character 615 0$aNobility of character in literature. 615 0$aLove 676 $a809.933543 700 $aJaeger$b C. Stephen$031374 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828341903321 996 $aEnnobling love$94017811 997 $aUNINA