Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society

By Erin Abraham Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society explores early medieval understandings of sin, looking in particular at childhood, sexuality and violence.

Searching for Sodom: Homoeroticism and the Protestant Tradition in England 1550-1850

By Harry Cocks Early Modern

The story of Sodom provided a context for discussions of homoerotic behavior.

“She was both Poxt and Clapt together”: Confessions of Sexual Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Venereal Cases

By Olivia Weisser Early Modern, Medicine and the Body

Sexual secrets were nothing new in the 1700s, but confessing them to a doctor became surprisingly common.

Bad for the Soul, Good for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Masturbation in the Middle Ages

By Katherine Harvey Medicine and the Body, Medieval

The monk could no longer be considered a virgin, since he has been ‘polluted…through masturbation’.