Medievalists.net » Anatomy http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The myth of Jewish male menses http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/25/the-myth-of-jewish-male-menses/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/25/the-myth-of-jewish-male-menses/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:10:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37473 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.

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