| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Series |
Routledge medieval casebooks |
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Medieval casebooks.
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| Contents |
Chapter Introduction -- part Part One: Early Medieval Histories -- chapter 1 Sexuality in Late Lombard Italy, c.700-c.800 AD -- chapter 2 Sex and Text: The Afterlife of Medieval Penance in / Britain and Ireland -- part Part Two: Saintly Sexualities -- chapter 3 When Sex Stopped Being a Social Disease: Sex and the Desert Fathers and Mothers -- chapter 4 Virtue and Violence: Saints, Monsters and Sexuality in Medieval Culture -- part Part Three: Consuming Passions -- chapter 5 "The Food of Love": Illicit Feasting, Food Imagery and Adultery in Old French Literature -- chapter 6 The Role of Drinking in the Male Construction of Unruly Women -- chapter 7 Between Medicine and Morals: Sex in the Regimens of / Maino de Maineri -- part Part Four: Real and Imaginary Kingdoms -- chapter 8 "Puttyng Downe and Rebuking of Vices": Richard III and the Proclamation for the Reform of Morals -- chapter 9 Scandal, Malice and the Kingdom of the Bazoche -- part Part Five: To the East -- chapter 10 Al-Jå˙iΩ and the Construction of Homosexuality at the Abbasid Court -- chapter 11 "They Do Not Know the Use of Men": The Absence of Sodomy in Medieval Accounts of the Far East -- |
| Summary |
Medieval Sexuality: A Casebook is a fascinating collection featuring both new and established experts in the field. The volume includes 11 original essays by Ross Balzaretti, Philip Crispin, Dominic Janes, Hugh Kennedy, A. Lynn Martin, Kim M. Phillips, Samantha J.E. Riches, Joyce E. Salisbury, David Santiuste, and the volume editors, April Harper and Caroline Proctor. The authors explore a variety of sources, contributing work on a diverse range of topics including: sources for sexuality in Late Lombard Italy; the problematic reception of early medieval penitentials by modern readers; sexuali |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex customs -- History -- To 1500
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
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SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
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Sex customs
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harper, April.
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Proctor, Caroline.
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| ISBN |
9780203935026 |
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0203935020 |
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0415978319 |
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9780415978316 |
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9786611018009 |
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661101800X |
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