Deadly Sex and Sexy Death in Early Modern French Literature

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. The Cultural Significance of Sexuality in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and Beyond. A Secret Continuous Undercurrent or a Dominant Phenomenon of the Premodern World? Or: The Irrepressibility of Sex Yesterday and Today 1
4. Naked Men in Medieval German Literature and Art Anthropological, Cultural Historical, and Mental Historical Investigations 143
5. The Exposed Body and the Gendered Blemmye: Reading the Wonders of the East 171
6. Lust ohne Liebe Roswitha von Gandersheim und geschlechtsspezifische Strafen für sündigen Sex 217
7. Sex and Fertility in Marie de France’s Lais 241
8. “Good Lovin’”: The Language of Erotic Desire and Fulfillment in Gottfried’s Tristan 257
9. The Limits of Reading Innuendo in Medieval Literature 279
10. Singing Desire: Musical Innuendo in Troubadour and Trouvère Song 293
11. A Vision of “Sexuality,” “Obscenity” or “Nudity”? Regional Differences in the Images of Corbels 325
12. Heloise, Monastic Temptation, and Memoria: Rethinking Autobiography, Sexual Experience, and Ethics 383
13. Gruppensex im Untergrund: Chaotische Ketzer und kirchliche Keuschheit im Mittelalter 405
14. Desire, Parody, and Sexual Mores in the Ending of Hue de Rotelande’s Ipomedon: An Invitation Through the Looking Glass 429
15. Feminine Sexuality and the Crusades Clerical Opposition to Women as a Strategy for Crusading Success 449
16. The Sexual Lives of Medieval Norman Clerics: A New Perspective on Clerical Sexuality 471
17. Feminine Sexuality in the Lancelot Grail Cycle 485
18. Sausages, Nuts, and Eggs: Food Imagery, the Body, and Sexuality in the Old French Fabliaux 503
19. Sex and the Sacraments in Tristan de Nanteuil 517
20. Inseminating Ruth in the Morgan Old Testament Picture Book: A Romance of the Crusades 535
21. The Rape of Men and other “Lessons” about Sex in the Libro de buen amor 565
22. Oral Sex in Oswald von Wolkenstein’s “Es seusst dort her von orient” (Kl. 20) 579
23. Intersecting the Ideal and the Real, Chivalry and Rape, Respect and Dishonor: The Problematics of Sexual Relationships in Troilus and Criseyde, Athelston, and Sir Tristrem 599
24. Caught in the Act: Malory’s “Sir Gareth” and the Construction of Sexual Performance 633
25. Sexual Desire and Pornography: Literary Imagination in a Satirical Context. Gender Conflict, Sexual Identity, and Misogyny in “Das Nonnenturnier” 649
26. The Prosecution of Sex in Late Medieval Troyes 691
27. Das Freudenhaus im Mittelalter: In der stat was gesessen / ain unrainer pulian . . . 715
28. Prescription, Passion, and Patronage in Early Modern Spain: Legitimizing Illicit Love at Santo Domingo de Silos “el Antiguo,” Toledo 751
29. Fertilizing the French Vernacular: Procreation, Warfare, and Authorship in Jean de Meun, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Rabelais 783
30. Deadly Sex and Sexy Death in Early Modern French Literature 811
31. From the Clitoris to the Breast: The Eclipse of the Female Libido in Early Modern Art, Literature, and Philosophy 837
32. Backmatter 879