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Article: Thomas C. Moser Jr., A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts.(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Thomas C. Moser Jr., A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004), xi + 485 pp. ISBN 0-472-11379-8. $75.00.
The title A Cosmos of Desire encapsulates the subject and the scope of this study. Its subject is 'erotic' lyrics rather than mere love poems, desire voiced in the context of the classical learning and philosophy of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Its scope is cosmic, the 'emerging cosmological perspective on eros--a sense of eros running through the universe from top to bottom, potentially linking the sublunar to the divine, where male creativity and academic study may even ...