Harper April, Proctor Caroline (eds.) Medieval Sexuality. A Casebook

Routledge, 2008. — 230 p.Acknowledgments

Early Medieval Histories
Sexuality in Late Lombard Italy, c.700–c.800 AD
Sex and Text: The Afterlife of Medieval Penance in Britain and Ireland
Saintly Sexualities
When Sex Stopped Being a Social Disease: Sex and the Desert Fathers and Mothers
Virtue and Violence: Saints, Monsters and Sexuality in Medieval Culture
Consuming Passions
“The Food of Love”: Illicit Feasting, Food Imagery and Adultery in Old French Literature
The Role of Drinking in the Male Construction of Unruly Women
Between Medicine and Morals: Sex in the Regimens of Maino de Maineri
Real and Imaginary Kingdoms
“Puttyng Downe and Rebuking of Vices”: Richard III and the Proclamation for the Reform of Morals
Scandal, Malice and the Kingdom of the Bazoche
To the East
Al-Jahis and the Construction of Homosexuality at the Abbasid Court
“They Do Not Know the Use of Men”: The Absence of Sodomy in Medieval Accounts of the Far East
Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index