2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Transformation and Decline of the Allegory of Love from the 15th to 17th century Europe
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20520282
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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 |
European literature (English literature excluded)
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
MAENO Michiko 名古屋大学, 国際言語文化研究科, 教授 (40157152)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2011
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| Keywords | 〈愛〉の寓意 / ルクスリア / 奢侈文化 / 宮廷文化 / 都市文化 / キリスト教モラル |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to throw some light upon the personified allegory "Luxuria", an attractive woman of Vice, which is one of the Seven Deadly Sins and aroused a variety of interests as a pivot of Love, Luxury and Christian Morals in European Middle Ages. Based upon historical documents, especially upon many illustrated manuscripts of Prudentius' Psychomachia between the 9th and 11th centuries, I consider and analyze the religious and secular thoughts on LUXURIA in both cultural contexts of the court and the rising commercial cities.
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