"Applying a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays collected here analyse the role of pleasure in relation to a variety of subjects such as the human body, love, relationships, education, food, friendship, morality, devotion, and...
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"Applying a variety of methodological perspectives, the essays collected here analyse the role of pleasure in relation to a variety of subjects such as the human body, love, relationships, education, food, friendship, morality, devotion, and mysticism. They also integrate a wide range of sources including literature (monastic to courtly), medical texts, illuminated prayer books, iconography, and theatrical plays. Each document, each discipline, and thus each essay combine to provide a complex and diversified picture of medieval joys and delights - a picture that shows the extent to which pleasure is engrained in the period's culture. This collection shows how pleasure in the Middle Ages is at once a coveted feeling and a constant moral concern, both the object and the outcome of a constant negotiation between earthly and divine imperatives."-- Back cover
Esther Cohen: Pleasured bodies. Reflections on high medieval monastic pleasures
Philippa C. Maddern: 'It is full merry in heaven' : the pleasurable connotations of 'merriment' in late medieval England
Fernando Salmón: The pleasures and joys of the humoral body in medieval medicine
Naama Cohen-Hanegbi: Bodily pleasures: late medieval medical counsel in context
Maeve Doyle: Visual pleasure and the illuminated prayer book
Karen Moukheiber: Abbasid concubines and slave courtesans in Adab discourse : cultural mediators for an ethical appreciation of pleasure
William M. Reddy: Courts and pleasures : the neuroscience of pleasure and the pursuit of favour in twelfth-century courts
Barbara H. Rosenwein: Didactic pleasures. Taking pleasure in virtues and vices : Alcuin's manual for Count Wido
Richard Newhauser: Sin, the business of pleasure, and the pleasure of reading : exemplary narratives and other forms of sinful pleasure in William Peraldus's Summa de vitiis
Noëlle-Laetitia Perret: The role of pleasure in the acquisition of good virtues : Giles of Rome's idea of education in his De regimine principum (c. 1279)
Xavier Biron-Ouellet: Pleasure as an affective tool in pastoral care : the cases of Simone Fidati and Richard Rolle in fourteenth-century Italy and England
Élyse Dupras: Hell: the pleasure of the suffering of others from visions of the afterlife to religious theatre
Zachary Giuliano: Pleasures in God. Holy gluttons: Bede and the Carolingians on the pleasures of reading
Ken A. Grant: On leeks and onions : Pope Gregory VII and the rejection of pleasure
Constant J. Mews: Intoxication and the Song of Songs : Bernard of Clairvaux and the rediscovery of Origen in the twelfth century
Rob Faesen.: Pleasure in medieval Christian mystical literature: the analysis of John of Ruusbroec (1281-1381) and Hadewijch (thirteenth century)
