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

Fallen Bodies : : Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages / / 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....

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Elliott, Dyan,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©1998
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:The Middle Ages Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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