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The corporeal orientation: Understanding deviance through the object(s) of love
Barbezat, Michael D.
Barbezat, Michael D.
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[Extract] In this chapter, I attempt to relate some common approaches to the history of the emotions to central concepts in medieval Western Christian theology, premodern theories of cognition and modern queer theory. I will first explore some of these theoretical approaches before analysing the essential framework of the corporeal orientation as found in the work of Augustine of Hippo. Next, I will interrogate how these ideas function in the twelfth-century account of human cognition offered by Hugh of St Victor. From Hugh, I will examine how Chaucer’s Pardoner, in the fourteenth century, exemplifies the idea of a corporeal love as described by Augustine and Hugh. Finally, I will briefly examine how the Fall of humanity in Milton’s seventeenth-century Paradise Lost follows the framework of the corporeal orientation outlined earlier by Augustine, Hugh and Chaucer.
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2020
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The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100-1700
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119-132
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