Informationen zum Autor C. Stephen Jaeger is Professor of Germanics and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Origins of Courtliness: Civilizing Trends and the Formation of Courtly Ideals, 939-1210, and The Envy of Angels: Cathedral Schools and Social Ideals in Medieval Europe, 950-1200, all available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Klappentext "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 Zusammenfassung Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? This title charts the social constructions of passion and sexuality in our own times, no less than in the Middle Ages.

Klappentext

"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

Zusammenfassung
Public avowals of love between men were common from antiquity through the Middle Ages. What do these expressions leave to interpretation? This title charts the social constructions of passion and sexuality in our own times, no less than in the Middle Ages.