What role did sex play in medieval marriages, and did spouses owe each other a ‘marital debt’?
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Inventing Incest in Early Medieval Europe
The sixth century saw the emergence of a new understanding of the concept of incest, which was swiftly legislated in both secular and canon law.
Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature
Concerns about sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.
The Manly Priest: Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in the Medieval Period
Interview by Katherine Harvey In The Manly Priest: Clerical Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in England and Normandy, 1066-1300, Jennifer Thibodeaux tells the story of the imposition of clerical celibacy in the Anglo-Norman realms. For much of the medieval period, priests in both England and Normandy were not only permitted to marry, but […]
The Perfect Corpse: Death, Virginity and the Bishop in Medieval Europe
Lietbert was renowned for his piety, and in particular his sexual continence.
"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?
Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.
Sex and the Single Man in Late Medieval England
Rachel Moss In May 1482, a harried Richard Cely wrote from London to his younger brother George, who was working in Calais. Three months earlier, in the midst of Shrovetide celebrations (a time of raucous good cheer before the privations of Lent), he had had a sexual encounter with their […]
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