Zrinka Stahuljak is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor and co-author of Thinking Through Chretien de Troyes.

"This is an original, well-argued, and richly documented book. Zrinka Stahuljak demonstrates clearly the ways in which French doctors and historians in the nineteenth century constructed a vision of the Middle Ages that accorded with their vision of the nation. Pornographic Archaeology exemplifies critical history at its best." (Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study) "Zrinka Stahuljak has written a remarkable textual archaeology that brings to light numerous texts unknown to the great majority of medievalists. Scholars in nineteenth-century culture and history can also benefit from Stahuljak's approach to earlier interpreters of the Middle Ages. She establishes connections between history and medicine, the Middle Ages and the French nation, sex, race, and love. Pornographic Archaeology helps us to comprehend ideological constructions such as nationalism and sexual morals." (Virginie Greene, Harvard University)

• Note on TranslationsIntroduction: Sex and NationPart I. Sex and Blood1. "Pathologic Archaeology": An Introduction2. "Pathologic Genealogy": Biological Heredity and Medieval KinshipPart II. Sex and Race3. Symbolic Archaeology: Sex in the Colonies4. Gilles and Joan, Criminal and Genius: Medical Fictions and the Regeneration of the French RacePart III. Sex and Love5. "Pornographic Archaeology": An histoire des moeurs6. Courtly Love, Courtly Marriage, and Republican DivorceEpilogue. From Pornography to Archaeology: Priapus at the Cluny MuseumNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments

Zrinka Stahuljak is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Bloodless Genealogies of the French Middle Ages: Translatio, Kinship, and Metaphor and co-author of Thinking Through Chretien de Troyes.

"This is an original, well-argued, and richly documented book. Zrinka Stahuljak demonstrates clearly the ways in which French doctors and historians in the nineteenth century constructed a vision of the Middle Ages that accorded with their vision of the nation. Pornographic Archaeology exemplifies critical history at its best." (Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study) "Zrinka Stahuljak has written a remarkable textual archaeology that brings to light numerous texts unknown to the great majority of medievalists. Scholars in nineteenth-century culture and history can also benefit from Stahuljak's approach to earlier interpreters of the Middle Ages. She establishes connections between history and medicine, the Middle Ages and the French nation, sex, race, and love. Pornographic Archaeology helps us to comprehend ideological constructions such as nationalism and sexual morals." (Virginie Greene, Harvard University)

• Note on TranslationsIntroduction: Sex and NationPart I. Sex and Blood1. "Pathologic Archaeology": An Introduction2. "Pathologic Genealogy": Biological Heredity and Medieval KinshipPart II. Sex and Race3. Symbolic Archaeology: Sex in the Colonies4. Gilles and Joan, Criminal and Genius: Medical Fictions and the Regeneration of the French RacePart III. Sex and Love5. "Pornographic Archaeology": An histoire des moeurs6. Courtly Love, Courtly Marriage, and Republican DivorceEpilogue. From Pornography to Archaeology: Priapus at the Cluny MuseumNotesBibliographyIndexAcknowledgments