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The bridling of desire : views of sex in the later Middle Ages /
The later Middle Ages saw the emergence of an integral theory of human sexuality, a systematic account of its origins, role, and significance in the divine plan. Instead of simply dismissing medieval views of sex as misogynist and guilt-ridden, Pierre Payer urges a re-examination of medieval writers...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Paradise
- Gender Difference
- Reproduction through Intercourse
- Semen
- Pleasure
- Procreation
- Virginity
- Sexual Relations in Paradise?
- 2 The Fall, Original Sin, and Concupiscence
- Temptation and the First Sin
- Original Sin
- Sensuality and First Movements
- Lust and the Transmission of Original Sin
- Broken Reins
- 3 Marriage and Sex
- The Twofold Institution of Marriage
- The Naturalness of Marriage
- The Goods of Marriage
- Contraception
- ImpotenceSterility
- The Manner of Intercourse
- The Moral Character of Marital Relations
- 4 Legitimate Reasons for Marital Relations
- Reasons in General
- For the Sake of Offspring
- The Marital Debt
- Time
- Place
- Condition of Persons
- 5 Problematic Reasons for Marital Relations
- Because of Incontinence
- Intercourse to Satisfy Lust or for the Sake of Pleasure
- 6 The Virtue of Temperance
- Conceptions of Temperance
- The Parts of Temperance
- Aristotle
- Early Thirteenth-century Accounts
- Thomas Aquinas
- 7 Continence, Chastity, and VirginityContinence
- Chastity
- Virginity
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The Twofold Institution of Marriage
- Appendix 2 William Peraldus on Temperance
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- D
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