Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle AgesUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 1999 - 300 من الصفحات 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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Pollution Illusion and Masculine Disarray Nocturnal Emissious and the Sexuality of the Clergy | 14 |
From Sexual Fantasy to Demonic Defloration The Libidinous Female in the Later Middle Ages | 35 |
Sex in Holy Places An Exploration of a Medieval Anxiety | 61 |
The Priests Wife Female Erasure and the Gregorian Reform | 81 |
Avatars of the Priests Wife The Return of the Repressed | 107 |
On Angelic Disembodiment and the Incredible Purity of Demons | 127 |
Afterword | 157 |
Notes | 165 |
Bibliography | 267 |
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