Sex, Love, and Marriage from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment - TTC/TGC Audiobook

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Read by Jennifer McNabb
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Sex, Love, and Marriage from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment
By: Jennifer McNabb, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Jennifer McNabb
Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
Release date: 08-17-21
Language: English
Publisher: Audible Originals
Categories: Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development, Relationships

About the Professor

Jennifer McNabb is Professor of History and the head of the Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2003. Professor McNabb has spoken and published widely on social relationships in early modern Europe, especially courtship and marriage. In addition to articles in journals such as the Sixteenth Century Journal and Journal of Women’s History, she has authored material for several textbooks on Western civilization and European history. Professor McNabb has served as president of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association and is a former chair of the program committee of the Midwest Conference on British Studies.

About This Audible Original

There is a common misconception that sex, love, and marriage in medieval and early modern Europe followed very specific, inflexible rules and expectations which remained unchanged for centuries. But the boundaries of matrimony, sexuality, and romantic relationships have always been complicated and the rules surrounding them are forever changing.

Throughout the 10 lectures of Sex, Love, and Marriage from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, you will find that looking closer at marriage and sexuality in this period reveals a vibrant history of flexibility, of questioning and adaptation, and of evolutionary—and sometimes even revolutionary—change. With Professor Jennifer McNabb, you will explore these crucial aspects of the human experience as they were formed and transformed in the centuries that stretched between the Roman adoption of Christianity and the emergence of the Enlightenment. Along with the more traditional aspects of sex and marriage, you will also examine:

• The Christian church’s complex relationship with sex and celibacy;
• The experience of the unmarried or formerly married in a marriage-driven society;
• Prostitution and commercialized sex;
• The realities vs. the fiction of forbidden love and unrecognized unions;
• The rise of companionate marriage;
• How the Protestant Reformation altered the sexual and matrimonial landscape; and more.

As you look closely at these and other dimensions of love and sex across a millennium of change and resistance, you will get a more nuanced and honest view of the complexity of our past and how medieval and early modern perspectives on sex, love, and marriage continue to influence the way we think about and experience them today.

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