2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Love letters and women in the 17th century
| Project/Area Number |
11610576
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
文学一般(含文学論・比較文学)・西洋古典
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
MAENO Michiko Nagoya University, Faculty of Language and Cultur, Professor, 言語文化部, 教授 (40157152)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2002
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| Keywords | love-letters / letter-manual / dutch genre painting / gender / 16th Century Cultural History / 17th Century Cultural History / Women's History / love-marriage |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this papers is to demonstrate a significant difference between the courtly love in France and the civic love in Holland in the 17th century. In the courtly love tradition people did not necessarily seek for marriage ; in the civic love, however, marriage was always sought for. In order to show the difference, many materials such as Dutch genre paintings, popular songs, proverbs, emblem books and moral books for girls are to be examined.
Many critics have largely ignored the cultural context behind the Dutch genre paintings. This paper, however, attempts to throw a light on the context. In Holland, love had an important meaning in the civic institutions of the 17th century that were formed or reformed under the influence of the protestantism. Love was considered to be a necessary condition for marriage and for this purpose young girls in the (upper-) middle class were educated and controlled.
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