Title: Sex in the Middle Ages : a book of essays /
Authors: Salisbury, Joyce E.; Salisbury, Joyce E.
Publisher: Garland Pub.,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Social Conditions.; Sexual Behavior; Sex customs Europe History.; Sex customs History; Social history; Europe; Europe Social conditions
Contents: Before the male gaze : the absence of the female body in old Norse / Jenny Jochens -- Erotic magic in medieval Europe / Richard Kieckhefer -- A medieval physician's guide to virginity / Esther Lastique, Helen Rodnite Lemay -- Texts, naked and thinly veiled : erotic elements in medieval Italian literature / Christopher Kleinhenz -- A fifteenth-century physician's attitude toward sexuality : Dr. Johann Hartlieb's Secreta mulierum translation / Margaret Schleissner -- Sex and confession in the thirteenth century / Pierre J. Payer -- A smorgasbord of sexual practices / Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre / "Fawn of my delights" : boy-love in Hebrew and Arabic verse / Norman Roth -- Bestiality in the Middle Ages / Joyce E. Salisbury -- The story of the Völsi, an old Norse anecdote of conversion / Andreas Heusler -- Saints and sex, ca. 500-1100 : striding down the nettled path of life / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- Penis captivus : a historical note / J.D. Rolleston -- Three cases of vaginism / C. Grant Loomis -- Politics of sodomy : Rex v. Pons Hugh de Ampurias (1311) / James A. Brundage.