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Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage

2010-02-24 History
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Release : 2010-02-24
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage by : Warren S. Smith

Download or read book Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage written by Warren S. Smith. This book was released on 2010-02-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.

Greek and Roman Sexualities: A Sourcebook

2012-09-06 History
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Release : 2012-09-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Greek and Roman Sexualities: A Sourcebook by : Jennifer Larson

Download or read book Greek and Roman Sexualities: A Sourcebook written by Jennifer Larson. This book was released on 2012-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of Foucault's History of Sexuality the volume of Classical scholarship on gender, sexuality and the body has steadily increased in tandem with the expansion of these topics in other areas of the Humanities. This volume will provide readers with a substantial selection of primary sources documenting sexualities, sexual behaviors, and perceptions of sex, sexuality, gender, and the body among people in the ancient Greco-Roman world. The coverage will begin with Homer in the eighth century BCE and will focus most heavily on Classical Greece and Rome from the Republic to the early Empire, though sources reflecting societal changes in later antiquity and a selection of Jewish and Christian readings will also be included. Authors will include Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Galen, Ovid and Plutarch, with each chapter including one or two substantial 'focal' readings. The materials will include poetry, history, oratory, medical and philosophical writings, letters, and inscriptions, both public and private.

Early Christian Dress

2012-02-16 Health & Fitness
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Release : 2012-02-16
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Early Christian Dress by : Kristi Upson-Saia

Download or read book Early Christian Dress written by Kristi Upson-Saia. This book was released on 2012-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians’ rivalries with pagan neighbours, and especially to the ways in which notions of gender were culled and revised in the process. Although many scholars have argued that gender in late antiquity was a performed and embodied category, few have paid attention to the ways in which dress and physical appearances were implicated in the understanding of femininity and masculinity. This study addresses that gap, revealing the amount of sartorial work necessary to secure stable gender categories in the worlds of early Imperial pagans and late ancient Christians. This study analyzes several vigorous discussions and debates that arose over Christian women’s dress. It examines how Christians interpreted their dress—especially the dress of female ascetics—as evidence of Christianity’s advanced morality and piety, a morality and piety that was coded "masculine." Yet even Christian leaders who championed ascetic women’s ability to achieve a degree of virility in terms of their virtue and spiritual status were troubled when ascetics’ dress threatened to materially dissolve gender categories, difference, and hierarchies. In the end, the study enables us to gain a broader view of how gender was constructed, perceived, and contested in early Christianity.

Satire in the Elizabethan Era

2017-11-28 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2017-11-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Satire in the Elizabethan Era by : William Jones

Download or read book Satire in the Elizabethan Era written by William Jones. This book was released on 2017-11-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the satire of the late Elizabethan period goes far beyond generic rhetorical persuasion, but is instead intentionally engaged in a literary mission of transideological "perceptual translation." This reshaping of cultural orthodoxies is interpreted in this study as both authentic and "activistic" in the sense that satire represents a purpose-driven attempt to build a consensual community devoted to genuine socio-cultural change. The book includes explorations of specific ideologically stabilizing satires produced before the Bishops’ Ban of 1599, as well as the attempt to return nihilistic English satire to a stabilizing theatrical form during the tumultuous end of the reign of Elizabeth I. Dr. Jones infuses carefully chosen, modern-day examples of satire alongside those of the Elizabethan Era, making it a thoughtful, vigorous read.

Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions

2015 Foreign Language Study
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Release : 2015
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions by : Catherine Keane

Download or read book Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions written by Catherine Keane. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text reveals Juvenal's creative exploitation of Greco-Roman ideas about the emotions in this new analysis of his Satires and their arrangement.

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