Sex, dissidence and damnation : minority groups in the Middle Ages / Jeffrey Richards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richards, Jeffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Minorities--History.

Minorities.

Dissenters--History.

Dissenters.

Sex customs--History.

Sex customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 179p., [20]p. of plates.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examines dissent and the persecution of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals in the Middle Ages, and argues that the common motive for their punishment was sexual aberrance.

For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance. For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance.

Contents:

1. The medieval context

2. Sex in the Middle Ages

3. Heretics

4. Witches

5. Jews

6. Prostitutes

7. Homosexuals

8. Lepers.

Notes:

Firstitle pageblished 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 14, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-12708-9

1-138-47585-8

1-315-00303-1

1-136-12700-3

9781315003030

OCLC:

862823783