Zrinka Stahuljak

Pornographic Archaeology

Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

Pornographic Archaeology uncovers the determinant role that the sexuality of the Middle Ages played in the construction of nineteenth-century French nation and empire. This cultural history demonstrates how medicine's obsession with the medieval past helped to define European sexuality, race, marriage, and family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244472
• ISBN-10: 0812244478
• Artikelnr.: 35562254

Autorenporträt

Zrinka Stahuljak

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translations
Introduction: Sex and Nation
Part I. Sex and Blood
1. "Pathologic Archaeology": An Introduction
2. "Pathologic Genealogy": Biological Heredity and Medieval Kinship
Part II. Sex and Race
3. Symbolic Archaeology: Sex in the Colonies
4. Gilles and Joan, Criminal and Genius: Medical Fictions and the
Regeneration of the French Race
Part III. Sex and Love
5. "Pornographic Archaeology": An histoire des moeurs
6. Courtly Love, Courtly Marriage, and Republican Divorce
Epilogue. From Pornography to Archaeology: Priapus at the Cluny Museum
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments