- 272 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Yes, you can access Sex in the Middle Ages by Joyce E. Salisbury in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Courtship
- Before the Male Gaze: The Absence of the Female Body in Old Norse
- Erotic Magic in Medieval Europe
- A Medieval Physicianâs Guide to Virginity
- Disclosure
- Texts, Naked and Thinly Veiled: Erotic Elements in Medieval Italian Literature
- A Fifteenth-Century Physicianâs Attitude Toward Sexuality: Dr. Johann Hartliebâs Secreta mulierum Translation
- Sex and Confession in the Thirteenth Century
- Diversity
- A Smorgasbord of Sexual Practices
- âFawn of my Delightsâ: Boy-Love in Hebrew and Arabic Verse
- Bestiality in the Middle Ages
- The Story of the Völsi, an old Norse Anecdote of Conversion
- Public Implications
- Saints and Sex, ca. 500â1100: Striding down the Nettled Path of Life
- Penis Captivus
- Politics of Sodomy: Rex v. Pons Hugh de Ampurias (1311)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index