The myth of Jewish male menses

15th century depiction of Jewish men

Several scholars have asserted that medieval Christians believed that Jewish men menstruated. Their arguments, made in support of a grander claim that Jews as a collectivity were gendered feminine in Christian thought, rest on numerous misreadings.

Beliefs about Human Sexual Function in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Medieval female physician - From an early 15th century English manuscript

We want to examine the major beliefs about human sexual anatomy and fuction that prevailed during the Middle Ages and Renaissance and some of the medical practices that were related to these beliefs.

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