TY - BOOK AU - Elliott,Dyan TI - Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages T2 - The Middle Ages Series SN - 9780812200737 AV - BT708 -- .E43 1999eb U1 - 261.8/357/0902 PY - 1998/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Sex-Religious aspects-Christianity KW - Demonology-History of doctrines-Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - "That rare conjunction of impeccable scholarship, brilliant synthesis, and innovative intellectual insight. It is a far-ranging work."--Mathew Kuefler, San Diego State University UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3441441 ER -