1st Edition

Handbook of Medieval Sexuality

460 Pages

by Routledge

460 Pages

by Routledge

460 Pages

by Routledge

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Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the... Read more

Part 1 I Sexual Norms; Chapter 1 I Confession and the Study of Sex in the Middle Ages, Pierre J. Payer; Chapter 2 2SEX AND CANON LAW, James A.Brundage; Chapter 3 3WESTERN MEDICINE AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, JoanCaddert; Chapter 4 GENDERED SEXUALITY, Joyce E.Salisbury; Chapter 5 CHASTE MARRIAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES, MargaretMcGlynn, Richard J.Moll; Chapter 6 HIDING BEHIND THE UNIVERSAL MAN, Jacqueline Murray; Part II II VARIANCE FROM NORMS; Chapter 7 HOMOSEXUALITY, Warren Johansson, William A. Percy; Chapter 8 TWICE MARGINAL AND TWICE INVISIBLE, Murray Jacqueline; Chapter 9 Cross Dressing and Gender Role Change in the Middle Ages, Vern L.Bullough; Chapter 10 PROSTITUTION IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Ruth Mazo. Karras; Chapter 11 Contraception and Early Abortion in the Middle Ages, John M. Riddle; Chapter 12 Castration and Eunuchism in the Middle Ages, Mathew S.Kuefler; Chapter 13 A NOTE ON RESEARCH INTO JEWISH SEXUALITY IN THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD, Norman Roth; Bibliography; Chapter 14 A RESEARCH NOTE ON SEXUALITY AND MUSLIM CIVILIZATION, Norman Roth; Bibliography; Chapter 15 Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Eve Levin; Chapter 16 Sexuality in Medieval French Literature, Laurie A.Firtke; Chapter 17 Old Norse Sexuality: MEn, Women, and Beasts, Jenny Jochens; Chapter 18 Sex Roles and the Role of Sex in Medieval English Literature, DavidLampe; contrib Contributors Index;