Medieval Sexuality

"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; sexuality as experienced by the desert fathers and mothers; connections between saints, monsters, and sexuality in medieval art and hagiography; the relationship between food, seduction, and adultery in the "fabliaux"; sex, alcohol, and the late medieval stereotype of the unruly woman; sex as a medical and moral concern in medieval regimens of health; ideas of sexuality in political discourse; sex and scandal in festive drama; debates on sexual orientation in Arabic court literature; and, pre-colonial descriptions of sexuality in the Far East. The volume concludes with a useful selection of further reading.

ISBN 0415978319   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415978316 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 442 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series ISSN 29 Format Hardback   Series title Routledge Medieval Casebooks Publication date 08 Jan 2008   Height (mm) 236 Library of Congress 2007017642   Width (mm) 161 DEWEY 820.93538   Spine width (mm) 18 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate Pages 240

		Acknowledgments
		Introduction by April Harper and Caroline Proctor
Pt. 1		Early Medieval Histories
1		Sexuality in Late Lombard Italy, c.700-c.800 AD by Ross Balzaretti		7
2		Sex and Text: The Afterlife of Medieval Penance in Britain and Ireland by Dominic Janes		32
Pt. 2		Saintly Sexualities
3		When Sex Stopped Being a Social Disease: Sex and the Desert Fathers and Mothers by Joyce E. Salisbury		47
4		Virtue and Violence: Saints, Monsters and Sexuality in Medieval Culture by Samantha J. E. Riches		59
Pt. 3		Consuming Passions
5		"The Food of Love": Illicit Feasting, Food Imagery and Adultery in Old French Literature by April Harper		81
6		The Role of Drinking in the Male Construction of Unruly Women by A. Lynn Martin		98
7		Between Medicine and Morals: Sex in the Regimens of Maino de Maineri by Caroline Proctor		113
Pt. 4		Real and Imaginary Kingdoms
8		"Puttyng Downe and Rebuking of Vices": Richard III and the Proclamation for the Reform of Morals by David Santiuste		135
9		Scandal, Malice and the Kingdom of the Bazoche by Philip Crispin		154
Pt. 5		To the East
10		Al-Jahiz and the Construction of Homosexuality at the Abbasid Court by Hugh Kennedy		175
11		"They Do Not Know the Use of Men": The Absence of Sodomy in Medieval Accounts of the Far East by Kim M. Phillips		189
		Further Reading		209
		List of Contributors		217
		Index		220

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