Background
Baldwin, John Wesley was born on July 13, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward N. and H. Gladys (McDaniel) Baldwin.
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This study brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion a comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world. John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the Prose Salernitan Questions, for the medical theories of Galen; Andre the Chaplain, for the Ovidian literature of the schools; Jean Renart, for the contemporary romances; and Jean Bodel, for the emerging voices of the fabliaux. Baldwin juxtaposes their views on a range of essential subjects, including social position, the sexual body, desire and act, and procreation. The result is a fascinating dialogue of how they agreed or disagreed with, ignored, imitated, or responded to each other at a critical moment in the development of European ideas about sexual desire, fulfillment, morality, and gender. These spokesmen allow us into the discussion of sexuality inside the church and schools of the clergy, in high and popular culture of the leity. This heterogeneous discussion also offers a startling glimpse into the construction of gender specific to this moment, when men and women enjoyed equal status in sexual matters, if nowhere else. Taken together, these voices extend their reach, encompass their subject, and point to a center where social reality lies. By articulating reality at its varied depths, this study takes its place alongside groundbreaking works by James Brundage, John Boswell, and Leah Otis in extending our understanding of sexuality and sexual behavior in the Middle Ages. "Superb work. . . . These five kinds of discourse are not often treated together in scholarly writing, let alone compared and contrasted so well."—Edward Collins Vacek, Theological Studies "Baldwin has made the five voices speak to us in a language that is at one and the same time familiar and alien in its resonance and accents. This is a truly exceptional book, interdisciplinary in the real sense of the word, which is surely destined to become a landmark in medieval studies."—Keith Busby, Bryn Mawr Reviews "Baldwin's attempt to 'listen' to these distant voices and translate their language of sex into our own raises challenging methodological questions that will be of great interest to historians and literary scholars alike."—John P. Dalton, Comitatus
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Now available from Waveland Press, this highly regarded essay seeks to unify medieval culture by emphasizing its common institutions. The controlling theme is scholastic. Defined in a technical sense, it is simply that manner of thinking, teaching, and writing devised in and characteristic of the medieval schools. From the Preface: "Unity of theme can best be achieved by ignoring what is irrelevant. To concentrate my efforts, I have limited attention chronologically to the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries and geographically to France and Italy, when and where, I believe, scholastic culture attained its apogee."
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( In the thirteenth century the French kings won ascendan...)
In the thirteenth century the French kings won ascendancy over France, while France achieved political and cultural supremacy over western Europe. Based on French sources, this meticulously documented study provides an account of how Philip Augustus (1179-1223) brought about this transformation of royal power.
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Baldwin, John Wesley was born on July 13, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Edward N. and H. Gladys (McDaniel) Baldwin.
Bachelor, Wheaton College, Illinois, 1950. Master of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins, Maryland, 1956.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Northwestern University, Illinois, 2007.
Instructor, then assistant professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1956-1961; member of faculty, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, since 1961; professor of history, Johns Hopkins University, since 1966; Charles Homer Haskins professor of history, Johns Hopkins University, since 1986; professor e'tranger, College de France, 1984, 95.
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( In the thirteenth century the French kings won ascendan...)
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Fellow Medieval Academy American (vice president 1994, president 1996-1997, Charles Homer Haskins medal 1990), American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, British Academy (correspondent). Member Society for French History Studies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (foreign), American History Association, Commission International de Diplomatique (honorary), Academy Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (France) (associate foreign), Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France (associate correspondent foreign), Institut de France, American History Review, Speculum Review Historique (board editors).
Married Jenny Jochens, December 24, 1954. Children: Peter, Ian, Birgit (deceased), Christopher.