Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages

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Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages

Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384351X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages written by Larissa Tracy and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs. Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervadesa number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. Its subjects includearchaeological studies of eunuchs; historical accounts of castration in trials of combat; the mutilation of political rivals in medieval Wales; Anglo-Saxon and Frisian legal and literary examples of castration as punishment; castration as comedy in the Old French fabliaux; the prohibition against genital mutilation in hagiography; and early-modern anxieties about punitive castration enacted on the Elizabethan stage. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle ages, Abelard. LARISSA TRACY is Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Larissa Tracy, Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Jay Paul Gates, Charlene M. Eska, Mary A. Valante, Anthony Adams, Mary E. Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A. Clark, Karin Sellberg, LenaWånggren

Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature

Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843843935
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature written by Larissa Tracy and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

Treason

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400699
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Treason written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.

Flaying in the Pre-modern World

Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844524
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Flaying in the Pre-modern World written by Larissa Tracy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice and the representation of flaying in the middle ages and after are considered in this provocative collection.

Gender in Medieval Culture

Author : Michelle M. Sauer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441186948
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Gender in Medieval Culture written by Michelle M. Sauer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender in Medieval Culture provides a detailed examination of medieval society's views on both gender and sexuality, and shows how they are inextricably linked. Sex roles were clearly defined in the medieval world although there were exceptions to the rules, and this book examines both the commonplace world view and the exceptions to it. The volume looks not only at the social and economic considerations of gender but also the religious and legal implications, arguing that both ecclesiastical and secular laws governed behaviour. The book covers key topics, including femininity and masculinity and how medieval society constructed these terms; sexuality and sex; transgressive sexualities such as homosexuality, adultery and chastity; and the gendered body of Christ, including the idea of Jesus as mother and affective spirituality. Using a clear chapter structure for easy navigation and categorisation, as well as a glossary of terms, the book will be a vital resource for students of medieval history.

Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages

Author : Sharon A. Farmer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816638949
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages written by Sharon A. Farmer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender -- in the Middle Ages no less than now -- intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors show that medieval identities emerged through shifting paradigms -- that fluidity, conflict, and contingency characterized not only gender, but also sexuality, social status, and religion. This view emerges through essays that delve into a wide variety of cultures and draw on a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical approaches. Scholars in the fields of history as well as literary and religious studies consider gendered hierarchies in western Christian, Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic areas of the medieval world.

Heads Will Roll

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222286
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Heads Will Roll written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decapitation motif recurs in nearly all medieval and early modern genres, from saints' lives and epics to comedies and romances, yet decollation is often little regarded, save as a marker of humanity (that is, as the moment mortality exits) or inhumanity (that is, as the moment the supernatural enters). However, as a seat of reason, wisdom, and even the soul, the head has long been afforded a special place in the body politic, even when separated from its body proper. Capitalizing upon the enduring fascination with decapitation in European culture, this collection examines--through a variety of critical lenses--the recurring "roles/rolls" of severed human heads in the medieval and early modern imagination. Contributors are Nicola Masciandaro, Mark Faulkner, Jay Paul Gates, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Dwayne Coleman, Mary Leech, Tina Boyer, Renée Ward, Andrew Fleck, Thomas Herron, Thea Cervone, and Asa Simon Mittman. Preface by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.

Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages

Author : Madeline Harrison Caviness
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812235999
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages written by Madeline Harrison Caviness and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Caviness, an awareness of historical context places pressure upon contemporary theories like that of the "male gaze," changing their shapes and creating even richer dialogues with the past."--BOOK JACKET.

Becoming Male in the Middle Ages

Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134825307
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Male in the Middle Ages written by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Eunuchs and Castrati

Author : Piotr O. Scholz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Eunuchs and Castrati written by Piotr O. Scholz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of the role of eunuchs in the households and courts of Greece, Rome, China, Byzantine, medieval Europe and the East, which aims to challenge traditional preconceptions about their duties.

Handbook of Medieval Sexuality

Author : Vern L. Bullough
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136512241
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Medieval Sexuality written by Vern L. Bullough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this significant volume asserts that sexual conduct formed a crucial role in the lives, thoughts, hopes and fears both of individuals and of the institutions that they created in the middle ages. The absorbing subject of sexuality in the Middle Ages is examined in 19 original articles written specifically for this "Handbook" by the major authorities in their scholarly specialties. The study of medieval sexuality poses problems for the researcher: indices in standard sources rarely refer to sexual topics, and standard secondary sources often ignore the material or say little about it. Yet a vast amount of research is available, and the information is accessible to the student who knows where to look and what to look for. This volume is a valuable guide to the material and an indicator of what subjects are likely to yield fresh scholarly rewards.

The Perfect Servant

Author : Kathryn M. Ringrose
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226720160
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Servant written by Kathryn M. Ringrose and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfect Servant reevaluates the place of eunuchs in Byzantium. Kathryn Ringrose uses the modern concept of gender as a social construct to identify eunuchs as a distinct gender and to illustrate how gender was defined in the Byzantine world. At the same time she explores the changing role of the eunuch in Byzantium from 600 to 1100. Accepted for generations as a legitimate and functional part of Byzantine civilization, eunuchs were prominent in both the imperial court and the church. They were distinctive in physical appearance, dress, and manner and were considered uniquely suited for important roles in Byzantine life. Transcending conventional notions of male and female, eunuchs lived outside of normal patterns of procreation and inheritance and were assigned a unique capacity for mediating across social and spiritual boundaries. This allowed them to perform tasks from which prominent men and women were constrained, making them, in essence, perfect servants. Written with precision and meticulously researched, The Perfect Servant will immediately take its place as a major study on Byzantium and the history of gender.

The Roman Castrati

Author : Shaun Tougher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350188239
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Castrati written by Shaun Tougher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Eunichs in the Roman Empire -- Eunuchs of the Great Mother: The Galli in Rome -- Greeks Bearing Gifts: Terence's The Eunuch -- Of Seed and Spring: Eunuch Slaves of Imperial Rome -- Born Eunuchs: The Case of Favorinus of Arles -- Eusebius and His Kind: Court Eunuchs of the Later Roman Empire -- 'Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven': Self-Castration and Eunuchs in Early Christianity -- Military Eunuchs: The Case of Narses.

Medieval Virginities

Author : Ruth Evans
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802086372
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Virginities written by Ruth Evans and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety of subjects and disciplines represented here testify both to the elusiveness of virginity and to its lasting appeal and importance. Medieval Virginities shows how virginity's inherent ambiguity highlights the problems, contradictions and discontinuities lurking within medieval ideologies.

Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain

Author : Amanda Hopkins
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184384379X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Sexual Culture in the Literature of Medieval Britain written by Amanda Hopkins and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination into aspects of the sexual as depicted in a variety of medieval texts, from Chaucer and Malory to romance and alchemical treatises.

Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf

Author : Peter Stuart Baker
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843843463
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Honour, Exchange and Violence in Beowulf written by Peter Stuart Baker and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for a new reading of Beowulf in its contemporary context, where honour and violence are intimately linked. This book examines violence in its social setting, and especially as an essential element in the heroic system of exchange (sometimes called the Economy of Honour). It situates Beowulf in a northern European culture where violence was not stigmatized as evidence of a breakdown in social order but rather was seen as a reasonable way to get things done; where kings and their retainers saw themselves above all as warriors whose chief occupation was thepursuit of honour; and where most successful kings were those perceived as most predatory. Though kings and their subjects yearned for peace, the political and religious institutions of the time did little to restrain their violent impulses. Drawing on works from Britain, Scandinavia, and Ireland, which show how the practice of violence was governed by rules and customs which were observed, with variations, over a wide area, this book makes use of historicist and anthropological approaches to its subject. It takes a neutral attitude towards the phenomena it examines, but at the same time describes them fortnightly, avoiding euphemism and excuse-making on the one hand and condemnation on the other. In this it attempts to avoid the errors of critics who have sometimes been led astray by modern assumptions about the morality of violence. PETER S. BAKER is Professor of English at the Universityof Virginia.

Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages

Author : P. H. Cullum
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802048929
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages written by P. H. Cullum and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in gender in medieval culture have tended to focus on femininity, however the study of medieval masculinities has developed greatly over the last few years. Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages is the first volume to concentrate on this specific aspect of medieval gender studies, and looks at the ways in which varieties of medieval masculinity intersected with concepts of holiness. Patricia Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis have collected an exceptional group of essays that explore differing notions of medieval holiness, understood variously as religious, saintly, sacred, pure, morally perfect, and consider topics such as significance of the tonsure, sanctity and martyrdom, eunuch saints, and the writings of Henry Suso. Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages deals with a wide variety of texts and historical contexts, from Byzantium to Anglo-Saxon and late-medieval England.