pp. 308. Softcover Paperback with mostly just minor reading wear; creasing to spine; book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

pp. 308. Softcover Paperback with mostly just minor reading wear; creasing to spine; book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Softcover in dark greenish-blue and gold wraps,

Neither remainder nor ex-lib. Softcover in dark greenish-blue and gold wraps, 8vo. ix + 298pp. Index, bibliography, endnotes. VG. Lighht curl toward fore edges of wraps with additional mild wear/curl at tips of corners; wraps otherewise clean and very sharp. Binding strong and square; pages clean and unmarked with scuffing to lower page edges.

0226059731. This specific softcover book is in new condition with a cover

0226059731. This specific softcover book is in new condition with a cover that has sharp edges and corners and has a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era. This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender."; 6 X 0.9 X 9 inches; 308 pages.