The making of romantic love
Subtitle: longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE
By: William M. Reddy
Series: Chicago studies in practices of meaning; Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780226706269; 9780226706276
Subjects: Courtly love in literature; Courtly love; Love; Troubadours
Table of contents: title: The emergence of courtly love in Europe; title: Aristocratic speech, the Gregorian reform, and the first troubadour; title: Trobairitz and troubadours and the shadow religion; title: Narratives of true love and twelfth-century common sense; title: Points of comparison; title: The Bhakti troubadour: Vaishnavism in twelfth-century Bengal and Orissa; title: Elegance and compassion in Heian Japan.