Andrews, Walter G.

The age of beloveds love and the beloved in early-modern Ottoman and European culture and society / Walter G. Andrews and Mehmet Kalpaklı. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2005. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-410) and index.

Introduction -- Beloved boys (and girls) -- Love scripts I, male bonding -- Love scripts II, poems about poetry about love -- Love, sex, and poetry -- Women and the art of love -- Seduction and reversal -- To die for . . . : love and violence in the age of beloveds -- Love, law, and religion -- The end of an age -- Renaissance, renaissances, and the age of beloveds -- Appendix : Ottoman sultans during the age of beloveds.

Examines the "golden age" of the culture of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century, exploring sexuality, gender and literary society, as well as the demographics, economics, politics, society of love and other cultural productions of the Ottoman


English

1283023814 9786613023810 0822385902

10.1515/9780822385905 doi


Love--Social aspects--Turkey.
Love--Social aspects--Europe.
Turkish poetry--History and criticism.

GT2630 / .A53 2005

306.7/09561