The making of romantic love : longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reddy, William M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Series:Chicago studies in practices of meaning
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Table of Contents:
  • The 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.