The Meanings of Devotional Space: Female Owner-Portraits in Three French and Flemish Books of Hours
I would argue that owner-portraits create a new textual space for women. Indeed, they are the means of a new way, not just of seeing women, but also of women seeing.
The Naked Truth, or Why in Le Morte Darthur La Beale Isode May Be Naked but Queen Gwenyvere May Not
The Naked Truth, or Why in Le Morte Darthur La Beale Isode May Be Naked but Queen Gwenyvere May Not By Anat Koplowitz-Breier…
“Was It Good for You Too?” Medieval Erotic Art and Its Audiences
It is clear from even a cursory look through medieval writings as diverse as legal proceedings, penitentials, sermons, medical treatises, literature, fabliaux, and poetry, that medieval people themselves were very interested in the topic of sex.
Writing Fornication: Medieval Leyrwite and its Historians
Leyrwrite was a fine for fornication levied on the bondwomen of many English manors.
Ancient and Medieval Chinese Recipes for Aphrodisiacs and Philters: A Survey of Mawangdui and Dunhuang Manuscripts
Ancient and Medieval Chinese Recipes for Aphrodisiacs and Philters: A Survey of Mawangdui and Dunhuang Manuscripts By Donald Harper Paper given at the Symposium on…
“On Account of Scandal …”: Priests, Their Children, and the Ecclesiastical Demand for Celibacy
By the late Middle Ages canon law demanded that the higher orders of clerics lead a celibate life. In reality, however, throughout the medieval period and into the early modern era a significant minority fell far from this ideal.
Sex on the Stove: A Fifteen-century Tile from Banská Bystrica
Sex on the Stove: A Fifteen-century Tile from Banská Bystrica Gruia, Ana Maria Studia Patzinaka, 4/ 2007, pp. 85-122 Abstract Sexuality and eroticism…
The Church Sex Scandal: Medieval Blueprint for Disaster
Christian doctrine has always been divided between intolerance for the hidden sin and apprehension over scandalizing the faithful through its publication.
Views on Sexuality in Croatian Medieval Sources
To explore sexuality in the Middle Ages is always a challenge, leading the investigator through a complex area of controversies. This is partly because medieval writers were not explicit and often used cryptic language, mostly to avoid committing sin by talking about issues, which, as they thought, were essentially corrupted
Beliefs about Human Sexual Function in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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.
