Ladies and Gentlemen in Renaissance Western Europe Eros via Thanatos

• Authors: Elisabeta Zelinka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present article offers a postmodern (re)interpretation of the 16th century Renaissance set of social etiquettes versus the average citizen’s Weltanschauung triggered by his most natural drives and impulses. The epicentral focus of our investigation is the social network(s) built by the different, sometimes oppositional ethical, theological and epistemological codes. What types of motivation triggered certain members of different social layers to observe or to break these codes? Was there any differentiation between clergymen and (fe)male aristocracy? Most importantly, why was the epistemological positionality of men different from that of (educated) women?

Keywords

EN

collective consciousness; the French Revolution; “the politics of location”; proto-liberation; Weltanschauung

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Gender Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 114-125

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-08

Contributors

author

Elisabeta Zelinka

• West University of Timișoara, 4, Pârvan Blvd, Timișoara, Romania

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10320-012-0032-7