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Darrera modificació: 2026-06-16
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Wingard, Tess, "Sexuality in Crisis: Sodomy and Plague in the Fourteenth-Century English Church", Journal of Medieval History, 52/2 [=The Medieval Church: From Margins to Centre, Price-Goodfellow, Emmie Rose - Wingard, Tess, eds.] (2026), 253-272.
- Resum
- This essay explores the English church's programme of moral reform in response to recurrent outbreaks of plague in the period 1348–1400, drawing on chronicles, bishops' registers, and sermon collections. It explores historical and sociological perspectives on the cultural framing of pandemic diseases as ‘moral crises' in order to understand the ideological dynamics at work in the church's response. It argues that the ecclesiastical hierarchy viewed moral reform and liturgical activity as the foundations of effective management of the plague, and that the church identified the containment of the sin of lust – and particularly sodomy – as the central issue to this programme. This article is part of a Special Issue on Marginality and the Medieval Church that examines how categories of marginalisation were constructed, negotiated and resisted within the medieval church.
- Matèries
- Religió
Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Sexualitat
- URL
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/030441 ...
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