The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE

The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
ISBN-10
0226706265
ISBN-13
9780226706269
Category
History
Pages
439
Language
English
Published
2012-08-30
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
William M. Reddy

Description

In The Making of Romantic Love, William M. Reddy strikes out 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. 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 --

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