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Olde Daunce, The : Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World by Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, editors is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In this volume a variety of perspectives reevaluate the nature of friendship, desire, and the olde daunce of love in the Middle Ages. Challenging earlier scholarly notions about medieval marriage, this book suggests and explores the legitimacy of marital friendship, affection, and mutuality. The authors explore the relationship of medieval love to companionship, equality, and power, and relate medieval expressions of love to a number of issues including creativity, reading and writing, voyeurism, chastity, violence, and even hate. This book reconsiders the theological, philosophical, and legal background of medieval attitudes toward marriage, analyzes expressions of love and desire in European vernacular literature, and considers several implications of Chaucer’s treatment of love, marriage, and sexuality. --- from book’s back cover

Who reads Olde Daunce, The : Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World?

Author

Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector, editors

Publisher

Albany : State University Of New York Press, C1991.

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791404409

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Gender Studies, Literary Fiction

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13