Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders

by Elizabeth Eva Leach

Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music and poetry was composed and performed. In a focused analysis of the Oxford Bodelian Library's Douce 308 manuscript--a fourteenth-century compilation that includes over five hundred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501771876
• ISBN13: 9781501771873
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"