The medieval chastity belt : the myth-making process /

Conrad Kyeser was the first to present an image of a chastity belt in his illustrated book on war machinery, Bellifortis (1405), and some fifteenth- and sixteenth-century poets and artists referred to this object as well. Yet, there is no firm evidence that chastity belts were ever used in reality....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Classen, Albrecht
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Colección:New Middle Ages.
Temas:
500-1500
Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Women > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500 > Historiography.
Chastity belts > Historiography.
Chastity in literature.
Femmes > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge) > Historiographie.
Ceintures de chasteté > Historiographie.
Chasteté dans la littérature.
Social & cultural history.
Literary studies: classical, early & medieval.
European history.
Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500.
History.
Chastity in literature
Women > Middle Ages
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Creation of a Myth: The Flat Earth Theory as a Foretaste of the Hermeneutic Problem
  • The Nature of Mythical Thinking
  • The Chastity Belt
  • Modern Myth-Making
  • The Medieval Chastity Belt in Popular Opinion and Its Sources
  • Myth-Making Stage I: Alcide Bonneau (1836-1904)
  • Myth-Making Stage II: Dr. Caufeynon (1904 and 1905)
  • Myth-Making Stage III: Eric John Dingwall (1923)
  • Myth-Making Stage IV: Esar Levine (1931)
  • Myth-Making Stage V: Lexica, Encyclopedia, and Other Reference Works
  • Early German Encyclopedists
  • The Chastity Belt in Ersch's and Gruber's Encyclopedia
  • The Cultural Historian Alwin Schulz
  • The Anthropologist Heinrich Ploss
  • The Evidence Produced by A.M. Pachinger
  • The Bilder-Lexikon: The Allegedly Conclusive and Authoritative Summary
  • The History of Women in the Middle Ages: Max Bauer's Theories
  • Popular Encyclopedias
  • A Modern Breakthrough? Alexander Schulz's Contribution
  • Modern Myth-Making
  • The Dilettante Art Historian Eduard Fuchs
  • Modern Museum Pieces
  • Histories of Morality and Studies of Popular Culture
  • The Chastity Belt in Early-Modern Art: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
  • Froben Christof von Zimmern: A Late-Medieval Chronicler Who Knows Nothing about the Chastity Belt
  • Gianfranceso Straparola: Almost Obscene, but Ignorant of the Chastity Belt
  • History of Fashion
  • The Chastity Belt as a Theme in the Discourse of the Enlightenment
  • The Encyclopedists
  • Voltaire: The Eternal Satirist--Not a Testimony for the Historical Chastity Belt
  • Johann Gottfried Schnabel
  • The Chastity Belt in European Dictionaries and Reference Works
  • Sexology
  • Modern Reference Works on Eroticism and Sex
  • Recent Research on the Chastity Belt: The Evidence of Art History and the History of Everyday Life
  • The Literary and Historical Evidence, Revisited
  • The Chastity Belt in Italian Renaissance Literature
  • The Useless Chastity Belt in Cornazano's Proverbii in Facetie
  • The Motif of the Chastity Belt in Medieval Welsh Literature: Sir Hywel of Builth
  • Francesco II (Novell) di Carrara, Duke of Padua--the Alleged Inventor of the Chastity Belt
  • The Elusive Chastity Belt in Medieval and Early-Modern Literature
  • Renaissance and Baroque Literature and Arts
  • The Chastity Belt in Eighteenth-Century Art
  • Modern Art
  • Another Myth: The Jus primae noctis, or the Droit du cuissage (Droit du seigneur)
  • The Nature of Myths Revisited.

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