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

Name: Fallen Bodies Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780812216653

ISBN-10: 0812216652

ISBN-13: 9780812216653

Edition: 1998

Authors: Dyan Elliott

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Medieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their "fallen bodies" vulnerable to corrupting impulses--particularly those of a sexual nature. They feared that their corporeal frailty left them susceptible to demonic forces bent on penetrating and polluting their bodies and souls. Drawing on a variety of canonical and other sources,Fallen Bodies examines a wide-ranging set of issues generated by fears of pollution, sexuality, and demonology. To maintain their purity, celibate clerics combated the stain of nocturnal emissions; married clerics expelled their wives onto the streets and out of the historical record; an exemplum depicting a married couple having sex in church was told…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray: Nocturnal Emissions and the Sexuality of the Clergy



From Sexual Fantasy to Demonic Defloration: The Libidinous Female in the Later Middle Ages



Sex in Holy Places: An Exploration of a Medieval Anxiety



The Priest's Wife: Female Erasure and the Gregorian Reform



Avatars of the Priest's Wife: The Return of the Repressed



On Angelic Disembodiment and the Incredible Purity of Demons


Afterward


Notes


Bibliography


Index