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Bullough, Vern Leroy - Brundage, James (eds.), Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church, Buffalo, NY, Prometheus Books, 1982, xii + 289 pp.
- Resum
- Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church analyses the Christian assumptions about sexuality, chronicles the early institutionalisation of these assumptions, and explores the theological debate of the meaning of marriage and the role of sex in marriage. The theological conception of sex, including issues such as rape, seduction, impotence, and prostitution, is then examined as it came to be developed by canon lawyers and justified by medical and scientific writers. The book concludes with an overview of late medieval sex practices as seen in the literature of the period and in demographic studies.Professor Vern Bullough, the well-known researcher in human sexuality, and Professor James Brundage, a historian of the Medieval period, have combined their scholarly talents to develop an in-depth analysis of sexual attitudes and practices during the Middle Ages. Skilfully blending readability and scholarly thoroughness, this is a volume general readers as well as professionals recognise as a major contribution to the study of medieval sexuality.
Contents:
* Introduction: the Christian inheritance; Formation of medieval ideals: Christian theory and Christian practice / Vern L. Bullough
* Chaste marriage and clerical celibacy / Jo Ann McNamara
* The prostitute in the early Middle Ages; Transvestism in the Middle Ages; The sin against nature and homosexuality / Vern L. Bullough
* Sexual irregularities in medieval Scandinavia / Grethe Jacobsen
* Sex and canon law: a statistical analysis of samples of canon and civil law / James A. Brundage
* The marriage of Mary and Joseph in the twelfth-century ideology of marriage / Penny S. Gold
* Concubinage and marriage in medieval canon law; Adultery and fornication: a study in legal theology; The problem of impotence; Rape and seduction in the medieval canon law; Prostitution in the medieval canon law / James A. Brundage
* Sex in the literature of the Middle Ages: the fabliaux / Sidney E. Berger
* Prostitution in the later Middle Ages / Vern L. Bullough
* Human sexuality in twelfth- through fifteenth-century scientific writings / Helen Rodnite Lemay
* Postscript: heresy, witchcraft, and sexuality / Vern L. Bullough
* Appendix: medieval canon law and its sources
- Matèries
- Església
Societat
Religió
Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
Bruixeria
Sexualitat
- Notes
- Recensió: Charles T. Wood a Speculum, 61, 2 (1986), 386-387. Accés per JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2854048
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Reimpr.: Amherst, NY, Prometheus Books, 1994.
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