Marriage, Sexual Pleasure, and Learned Brides in the Wedding Orations of Fifteenth-Century Italy

2002 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. D'Elia
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Court Culture ◽  
Guarino Guarini ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Physical Beauty

In the fifteenth century, Guarino Guarini, Ludovico Carbone, Francesco Filelfo, and other humanists composed and delivered Latin orations at courtly weddings in Ferrara, Naples, and Milan. In these epithalatmia, which are mostly unpublished, orators adapt a classically inspired conception of marriage to Italian court culture. They defend physical beauty and sexual pleasure, praise learned brides, and assert the importance of mutual affection, revealing a complex picture of ideal gender relations in courts. Against the ancient and Christian anti-marriage ascetic traditions, humanists offer biblical, philosophical, political, economic, and hedonistic arguments in defense of marriage.

Vietnamese Kinship: Structural Principles and the Socialist Transformation in Northern Vietnam

1989 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hy van Luong
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Economic Framework ◽  
Socioeconomic Transformation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Structural Principles ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Theoretical Analyses

In the literature on the process of socioeconomic transformation, a major debate centers on the questions of how and how much indigenous traditions, including kinship structures, are transformed by the larger political economic framework (Sahlins 1985, Hobsbawm 1983, Wolf 1982). Marxist theoretical analyses tend to emphasize the eventual demise of gender inequality and male-oriented (patrilineal, patrilocal, and patriarchical) kinship systems—kinship systems within which gender relations are also embedded (cf. Engels 1972). The analytical literature on Vietnamese kinship and gender in the socialist era is certainly not an exception in this regard. It is pervaded with general propositions regarding the nuclearization of the family (Houtart and Lemercinier 1981, Werner 1981) and the political-economy-based transformation of the system toward a structure of egalitarian gender relations (e.g., Lê thḷ Nhâm-Tuyêt 1973).

What Happened to Gender Relations on the Way from Chicago to Los Angeles?

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne Spain
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
World War ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Cultural Forces ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Way

From the Chicago human ecologists to the Los Angeles postmodernists, urban theorists have tried to understand how space is structured by technological, political, economic, and cultural forces; gender is seldom examined. Yet both women’s status and urban form underwent significant changes following World War II. As the home became less predictably the center of women’s lives, the monocentric city was evolving into the polycentric metropolis. This article suggests that gender relations also have spatial implications for the metropolis, and that urban theory would be more comprehensive if it incorporated historically parallel developments in the literature on gender and space.

The Arabic Verses of Qasmūna Bint Ismā'il Ibn Bagdālah

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mansfield Nichols
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Young Woman ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Women Poets ◽  
Medieval Spain ◽  
Biographical Data ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Physical Beauty

Little is known about the twelfth-century poet called Qasmūna the Jewess. She was one of a constellation of Arabic-writing women poets of medieval Spain, and is the sole representative of her faith from whom we have surviving verses. These are collected in the fifteenth-century anthology of women's verse compiled by as-Suyūtu, who drew upon the Nafh at-tub of al-Maqqaru. The sketchy biographical data that as-Suyūtu records show Qasmūna as a witty and intelligent young woman who received an excellent education from a doting father named Ismā'il ibn Ba@dālah. Indeed, the first of the three poetic texts we have from her is the product of a collaboration between Qasmūna and her father. In addition, she was endowed with great physical beauty, as becomes apparent in her poetry.

scholarly journals The Physical Beauty in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Chunli Ma
Keyword(s):  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sexual Pleasure ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Sensual Pleasure ◽  
Principal Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Physical Beauty

<p>Beauty, one of the most reoccurring words throughout Shakespeare’s Sonnets, is the principal subject of the poet’s meditation. “From fairest creatures we desire increase, / That thereby beauty’s rose might never die” begins the first poem in the sonnet sequence, a statement about beauty that can be understood as the first articulation of the Sonnets’ aesthetic agenda. Beauty in Shakespeare’s Sonnets is represented in two dimensions: the physical beauty and the spiritual beauty. The physical beauty refers to the beauty of the body and the sensual pleasure derived from desires.By means of the illustration of the physical beauty, Shakespeare conveyed the aesthetical world which brings readers enjoyment and delight, moreover, the poet warns readers that the sensual pleasure should base on married chastity and social norms, otherwise, it would result in death and destruction. The account of sexual pleasure shows that on the one hand for enjoying the life itself, on the other hand, for leaving children behind to make the temporary time eternalized, thus returning back to timeless Garden of Eden. This returning course is the process of preserving beauty.This article only focuses on interpreting the physical beauty in the Sonnets, the part of the beauty in spiritual dimension will be presented in another one.</p>

Engaging the South: Ming China and Southeast Asia in the Fifteenth Century

2008 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 578-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Wade
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
The South ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
Politique Économique ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractThe fifteenth century witnessed Ming China expanding its interactions with areas to the south—areas which we today refer to as Southeast Asia. This involved overland political expansion, the gradual incorporation of Tai polities, as well as their economic exploitation. The twenty-year incorporation of the Dai Viêt policy was also part of this process. In the maritime realm, following the early fifteenth-century sending of massive armadas in an attempt to achieve a pax Ming in the region, the Ming court made efforts to ban maritime commerce by non-state players. This paper examines the effects that these various Ming policies had on Southeast Asia in the political, economic, technological, and cultural spheres. Le XVIème siècle vit la multiplication des interventions de la Chine des Ming dans la région aujourd'hui dénommée Asie du Sud-Est. Elles entraînèrent une expansion politique terrestre, l'annexion progressive des royaumes Thaïs et leur exploitation économique. L'incorporation du royaume de Dai Viêt à la Chine durant vingt années, s'inscrit dans le même développement. Dans le domaine maritime, le début du XVIème siècle est marqué par l'envoi d'armadas qui tentèrent d'imposer la pax Ming dans l'Asie du Sud-Est., la cour Ming s'efforçant d'exclure le négoce privé du commerce maritime. Cette contribution étudie les effets de l'ensemble des stratégies des Ming en Asie du Sud-Est dans la sphère politique, économique, technologique et culturelle.

scholarly journals Social Influences on the Typographic Medium in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation Period in Bratislava, the Capital of Hungary

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-374
Author(s):  
Marta Špániová
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Social Influences ◽  
Book Printing ◽  
Counter Reformation ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Town

Over the centuries, the typographic medium and book printing responded to the political, economic, cultural, and social conditions very sensitively. The author deals with social influences on the development of book printing in Bratislava from the fifteenth century when the first printer is documented in the town. She ponders the reasons for the long absence of typographic activities in Bratislava from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth century. Paradoxically, the Reformation gave an impetus to the further development of book printing in Bratislava, as a Catholic printing house was established there in direct response to Reformation printing in Hungary. Therefore, the author also examines the conditions of Reformation printing to which the beginnings of publishing activities are tied in the territory of Slovakia. In the second part of the study, she focuses on Catholic Revival literature published in Bratislava in the seventeenth century, which played an important role in implementing Catholic reforms in Hungary.

The Tradition of Historical Writing in Korea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remco Breuker ◽  
Grace Koh ◽  
James B. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter examines how Korea adapted Chinese cultural, political, economic, and diplomatic models to fit the peculiarities of the peninsula. Detailed records on people inhabiting the Korean peninsula appear in Chinese histories from the third century AD. Until the mid-fifteenth century, Koreans did not develop their own script but either wrote in Chinese or adopted individual Chinese characters to write Korean. Such mastery of a radically different language also brought with it a fluency in Sinitic civilizational codes that could be used or ignored to fit local circumstances. However, the use of Chinese does not mean that the content always or even sometimes obeyed Chinese historiographical and social norms. Purposeful violation of those norms offered the peoples on the Korean peninsula the room to develop their own identity.

scholarly journals Sardinian Lives Matter

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-131
Author(s):  
Luca Lai ◽  
Sharon Watson
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Institutional Autonomy ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Political Economic

Sardinia had five centuries of independence up until the fifteenth century, and thereafter partial institutional autonomy until 1847. With its inclusion in the Italian state, Sardinia’s cultural, economic, institutional and political systems make it uniquely colonial in comparison to other ethnic/national minorities across Europe (Basque, Welsh, Catalan, etc.), leaving limited real choices for development to the locals and constraining what is seen as real and attainable for its future (Escobar 2020). This contribution demonstrates how Sardinia is an internal colony of Italy. We provide examples of decolonisation initiatives and provoke further interrogation on the ways in which the Black Lives Matter movement (and other efforts) are sustaining alternative visions for Sardinians’ political, economic, cultural and social future.

Entangling Medieval Emotions and Gender in Mediterranean History

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-326
Author(s):  
Megan Cassidy-Welch
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Mediterranean History ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Many ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract This essay introduces a group of essays that together explore the entanglement of gender and emotions in the medieval period, with a special interest in the Mediterranean. Focusing on the practices of crusading, pilgrimage, friendship and diplomacy from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, the essays reveal some of the many modes of human connection across the Mediterranean and beyond. These connections were informed by multiple factors – political, economic, social, religious and cultural. Considering the interplay of gender and emotions deepens our understanding of the complexity of the Mediterranean world and gives us fresh insights into the relationships that stretched across the sea itself, its many and diverse communities, and its cultures of belief and thought.

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