Title The making of romantic love : longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE / William M. Reddy.

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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Chicago studies in practices of meaning
	Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
Contents	The emergence of courtly love in Europe -- Aristocratic speech, the Gregorian reform, and the first troubadour -- Trobairitz and troubadours and the shadow religion -- Narratives of true love and twelfth-century common sense -- Points of comparison -- The Bhakti troubadour: Vaishnavism in twelfth-century Bengal and Orissa -- Elegance and compassion in Heian Japan.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary	Here, Reddy illuminates the birth of a cultural movement that managed to regulate selfish desire and render it innocent - or innocent enough. Reddy strikes out from this historical moment on an exploration of love, contrasting the medieval development of romantic love in Europe with contemporaneous eastern traditions in Bengal.
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Subject	Courtly love in literature.
	Courtly love in literature.
	Courtly love.
	Courtly love.
	Troubadours.
	Troubadours.
	Love -- Europe.
	Love.
	Europe.
	Love -- South Asia.
	South Asia.
	Love -- Japan.
	Japan.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Reddy, William M. Making of romantic love. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012 9780226706269 (DLC) 2011052753 (OCoLC)769818983
ISBN	9780226706283 (electronic book)
	0226706281 (electronic book)
	1282166468
	9781282166462
	9780226706269
	0226706265
	9780226706276
	0226706273

Title The making of romantic love : longing and sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE / William M. Reddy.

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