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Showing posts with label Troubadours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Troubadours. Show all posts

The History of Sex: Graz and Vienna -- Pop Psychopathy -- (Chapter VIII, Part 5)

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With dirt-dishing like that, 'Sexual Psychopathy' soon became a medical bestseller, despite many opinionmakers frowning on its popul...

The History of Sex: South of France -- The Christian v. Christian Crusade -- (Chap. III, Pt. 10)

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By 1209, the Church decided it had to act. A Pope with an ironic name—Innocent III—launched the West's first Christian-v-Christian Cru...

The History of Sex: South of France -- A License to Sin -- (Chap. III, Pt. 9)

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Given the Catholics' own peccadilloes, of course, it was more than a little rich for them to denounce the Cathars for their sexual hangu...

The History of Sex: South of France -- The Cult of the Cat-Arse-Kissers -- (Chap. III, Pt. 8)

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What's confounded modern minstrel buffs is whether the troubadours' love for their ladies, or donnas , was consummated or unrequited...

The History of Sex: South of France -- Roma vs. Amor -- (Chap. III, Pt. 7)

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I don't know if William's prayer was answered, but I was certainly smitten. So I've come to the langue d'oc itself to mee...

The History of Sex: South of France -- Poetry Slam Meets 'Fight Club' -- (Chap. III, Pt. 6)

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Now, I've been fascinated by the troubadours ever since I found out they weren't just men in tights flouncing around and sucking up ...

The History of Sex: South of France -- A (Relatively) Chaste Interlude (Chap. III, Pt. 1)

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Chapter Three  A (RELATIVELY) CHASTE INTERLUDE  Romance and Celibacy in the South of France   'To be always with a woman and not...