Research Catalog

Title

Sexual practices & the medieval church / Vern L. Bullough & James Brundage.

Author

Bullough, Vern L.

Publication

Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1982.

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Additional Authors

Brundage, James A.

Description

xii, 289 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

Sexual practices and the medieval church.

Subject

• Sex customs > History
• Sex > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Sex customs > History > To 1500
• Catholicism > history
• Religion and Sex

Genre/Form

Essays.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 225-226.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the Christian inheritance / Vern L. Bullough --Formation of medieval ideals / Vern L. Bullough -- Chaste marriage and clerical celibacy / Jo Ann McNamara -- The prostitute in the early Middle Ages / Vern L. Bullough -- Transvestism in the Middle Ages / Vern L. Bullough -- The sin against nature and homosexuality / Vern L. Bullough -- Sexual irregularities in medieval Scandinavia / Grethe Jacobsen -- Sex and canon 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 / James A. Brundage -- Adultery and fornication / James A. Brundage -- The problem of impotence / James A. Brundage -- Rape and seduction in the medieval canon law / James A. Brundage -- 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 sexualiy / Vern L. Bullough.

ISBN

• 087975141X
• 0879752688 (pbk.)
• 0879751517 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^80085227^

OCLC

8228378

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library