Sex in the Middle Ages (eBook, ePUB)

A Book of Essays
Redaktion: Salisbury, Joyce E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1991. Covering courtship, disclosure, diversity, and public implications, the essays here discuss topics such as erotic magic, nakedness, physicians' attitudes about sex, boy-love, saints and sex, and the politics of sodomy, as they were manifested in medieval Europe and the Middle East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429615030
• Artikelnr.: 55045219

Autorenporträt

Joyce E. Salisbury is Professor Emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: Courtship 2. Before the Male Gaze: The Absence of
the Female Body in Old Norse Jenny Jochens 3. Erotic Magic in Medieval
Europe Richard Kieckhefer 4. A Medieval Physician's Guide to Virginity
Esther Lastique and Helen Rodnite Lemay Part 2: Disclosure 5. Texts, Naked
and Thinly Veiled: Erotic Elements in Medieval Italian Literature
Christopher Kleinhenz 6. A Fifteenth-Century Physician's Attitude Toward
Sexuality: Dr. Johann Hartlieb's Secreta mulierum Translation Margaret
Schleissner 7. Sex and Confession in the Thirteenth Century Pierre J .
Payer Part 3: Diversity 8. A Smorgasbord of Sexual Practices Cathy
Jorgensen Itnyre 9. "Fawn of my Delights": Boy-Love in Hebrew and Arabic
Verse Norman Roth 10. Bestiality in the Middle Ages Joyce E. Salisbury 11.
The Story of the Völsi, an old Norse Anecdote of Conversion Andreas
Heusler, translated by Peter Nelson Part 4: Public Implications 12. Saints
and Sex, ca. 500-1100: Striding Down the Nettled Path of Life Jane Tibbetts
Schulenburg 13. Penis Captivus: Penis Captivus: A Historical Note J.D.
Rolleston, Three Cases of Vaginism C. Grant Loomis 14. Politics of Sodomy:
Rex v. Pons Hugh de Ampurias (1311) James A. Brundage