Fallen bodies : pollution, sexuality, and demonology in the Middle Ages /
Medieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their "fallen bodies" vulnerable to corrupting impulses--particularly those of a sexual nature. They feared that their corporeal frailty left them susceptible to demonic forces bent on penetrating and polluting their bodies and souls...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1999.
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Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray: Nocturnal Emissions and the Sexuality of the Clergy
- 2. From Sexual Fantasy to Demonic Defloration: The Libidinous Female in the Later Middle Ages
- 3. Sex in Holy Places: An Exploration of a Medieval Anxiety
- 4. The Priest's Wife: Female Erasure and the Gregorian Reform
- 5. Avatars of the Priest's Wife: The Return of the Repressed
- 6. On Angelic Disembodiment and the Incredible Purity of Demons
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index