HIST 3020 Lecture Notes - Pope Gregory Vii, Venial Sin, Concubinage

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 3020
• Professor: Caitlin Holton

Document Summary

William ix, duke of aquitaine: renouned troubadour (courtly love style, wrote in occitan, wrote about sex, travels, song was meant for nobles, elite, for humour xv. In the 16th century, visual portrayals of women were of motherhood: sex and sexuality foucault, sexuality is a cultural construction, discourse discussion around bodily acts, social meaning we give to bodies and actions of bodies, foucault, 1926-84, philosopher. 3. and 78-86 famous works include madness and insanity, archeology of knowledge, discipline and punish, history of sexuality: 3 volumes of history of sexuality published between 76-84, proposed repressive hypothesis. Sexuality must not be thought of as a kind of natural given which power tries to hold in check". It is the name that can be given to a historical construct". Sexuality is a cultural production represents the appropriation of the human body and of its physiological capacities by an ideological discourse".