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Fallen Bodies : Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (313 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812200737
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fallen BodiesDDC classification:
  • 261.8/357/0902
LOC classification:
  • BT708 -- .E43 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: "That rare conjunction of impeccable scholarship, brilliant synthesis, and innovative intellectual insight. It is a far-ranging work."--Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University.
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Cover -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

"That rare conjunction of impeccable scholarship, brilliant synthesis, and innovative intellectual insight. It is a far-ranging work."--Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University.

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