Gender & Sexuality in the European Renaissance

This blog is an extension of the class in order to promote discourse throughout the week. In analyzing the Renaissance, it should encourage students to look critically at today's culture and views of sex, gender and sexuality. Class website: https://sites.google.com/site/stryrengen/home

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I think it would be useful if you posted up what stuff Stry has said as a "hint" is going to be on the final :)

I'm currently frantically searching my notes...

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A couple kinds of words

The poem is notable because it makes constant use of nouns and verbs

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In case you don't know what to write in your final

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Remember the final is this Tuesday. If you haven’t bought your blue book, please do! Good luck on your final!

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Refined people do not play the hurdy gurdy

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What is your recommendation? Final or Research Paper? 12 pages sounds really scary... and I cant come up with a topic that could last me all that really... Unless it's witches. :)

Everyone has different limits, so I suggest you consider yours. If I’m correct the paper would be due in less than two weeks? If you know exactly what you’re doing it on and it’s something you’re passionate enough about to write over ten pages of it, go for it!!

Otherwise… Take the final. You should have class notes to review and you already have the information handed to you to put on the paper.

I do apologize for not answering earlier though :/

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https://lgbtq.unc.edu/asexuality-attraction-and-romantic-orientation

Attraction - There are many different types of attraction, including:

Sexual attraction: attraction that makes people desire sexual contact or shows sexual interest in another person(s).

Romantic attraction: attraction that makes people desire romantic contact or interaction with another person or persons.

Aesthetic attraction: occurs when someone appreciates the appearance or beauty of another person(s), disconnected from sexual or romantic attraction.

Sensual attraction: the desire to interact with others in a tactile, non-sexual way, such as through hugging or cuddling.

Emotional attraction: the desire to get to know someone, often as a result of their personality instead of their physicality. This type of attraction is present in most relationships from platonic friendships to romantic and sexual relationships.

Intellectual attraction: the desire to engage with another in an intellectual manner, such as engaging in conversation with them, “picking their brain,” and it has more to do with what or how a person thinks instead of the person themselves.

Assuming the separation of attraction into types is accurate--do you believe any one person can fulfill all of them? Is it possible to have some people to elicit these types of attraction from others to different extents, or to elicit a different combination of them?

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http://secondlina.deviantart.com/art/Sketchcomic-types-of-Attraction-298804729 I believe to be the original source to the image.

I bring this up because our discussion on eroticism and what we consider to be erotic felt reminiscent on some more modern discourse on the different types of attraction. We tend to differentiate between love and lust--while people in the renaissance saw both as love, just different kinds of love with different purposes. But both the carnal as well as the emotional are depicted as erotic while both are categorized separately.

Mostly we tend to conflate sexual desire with sensual as well as romantic at times. For most people, I assume all three line up perfectly--but do they always all of the time? For example: you can want to hold a partner, and only that. Not everything always leads to sex (I know I’m stating the obvious, but bare with me).

We also talk about Ficino’s ideal contemplative love--in which the desire to touch is not present. It sounds voyeuristic. And perhaps it is. Petrarch and Stampa both resign to the possibility of reciprocation of desire--Keeping themselves at a distance from their lover (even after consummation in Stampa’s poems). 

I guess my questions would be this:Is “eroticism” inherently sexual? And if it is, are our conception of what is sexual today limiting?Do you agree with the depiction above separating attraction into different types? Why or why not?

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i have an incredibly hard time believing the fact that the phrase “i will face god and walk backwards into hell” was created by dril and not taken from some 16th century literary epic

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“dril” btw is a twitter account that honestly, most of their posts are poetry.

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4/7      Navarre, Heptameron, Prologue and Stories 1–10

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So when I didn't understand in the English version I'd check what it said in Spanish to understand the message better.

When reading Torrellas and Flores it definitely helped being bilingual. Kind of helps to check the connotations, right?

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So could you give tell the definitions of the key terms that were on the midterm?! It have been torturing me since I took it!

I can’t remember all the key terms from the exam, but I’ll be typing and sharing mine if that’s what you all would like. If anyone would like to send theirs, please do!

(sorry I hadn’t gotten to this sooner)

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I could picture Marescalco saying this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd3XUF4DvBc

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"The notion of being an actor, for a Nigerian family, is bizarre … [My father] always thought it was a phase. Until he came to the Royal Shakespeare theater and we did Henry IV part one, two and three and I played Henry IV in all three. And he had come to the U.K. when racism was incredibly overt, in the ’60s. He had hot tea poured in his face. He was applying for a job and was spat at, physically spat at in the face. And afterwards at the stage door, I saw him and I could see he had been through something. And he said, "I cannot believe this, that in this country they would allow a black man to be the King of England and it is my son?" And that was the moment beyond which he became my number one fan." - David Oyelowo (x).

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my advice to anyone who wants to get rid of their crush B)

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Also relevant to class. I'm sure this is very educational. Somehow. Like this SO has to do with Renaissance lit