The Sexual Culture of the French Renaissance

By:

Katherine Crawford

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories

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When the French invaded Italy in 1494, they were shocked by the frank sexuality expressed in Italian cities. By 1600, the French were widely considered to be the most highly sexualized nation in Christendom. What caused this transformation? This book examines how, as Renaissance textual practices and new forms of knowledge rippled outward from Italy, the sexual landscape and French notions of masculinity, sexual agency, and procreation were fundamentally changed. Exploring the use of astrology, the infusion of Neoplatonism, the critique of Petrarchan love poetry, and the monarchy's sexual reputation, the book reveals that the French encountered conflicting ideas from abroad and from antiquity about the meanings and implications of sexual behavior. Intensely interested in cultural self-definition, humanists, poets, and political figures all contributed to the rapid alteration of sexual ideas to suit French cultural needs. The result was the vibrant sexual reputation that marks French culture to this day.

Author Biography:

KATHERINE CRAWFORD is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France (2004) and European Sexualities, 1400–1800 (2007).

Release date NZ

April 22nd, 2010

Author

Katherine Crawford

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

21 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

312

Series

Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories

Dimensions

153x228x14

ISBN-13

9780521749503

Product ID

4189188

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