Sex and the Penitentials : The Development of a Sexual Code, 550-1150 / Pierre J. Payer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Payer, Pierre J., Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Religious aspects--Christianity--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Sex.

Social history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Social history.

Penitentials.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Sex and the Penitentials is a systematic inquiry into one of the richest sources of sexual teaching in the early church. It represents a major step towards an understanding of the nature of that teaching and its role in the transformation of the classical ethic into a Christian one.

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Penitentials; Choice of Early Penitentials; Methodological Observations; The Penitentials: Additional Remarks; 1 The Penitentials to 813; The Heterosexual Life of the Married; The Heterosexual Life of the Unmarried; Homosexuality and Lesbianism; Bestiality; Masturbation; Safeguards of Chastity; Seminal Emission; 2 The Ninth Century; The Reception of the Penitentials; Ninth-Century Penitentials in the Traditional Style; Penitentials in a New Key; 3 Penitential Texts in Canonical Collections after 906; The Collections

Penitential Texts in Some Canonical Collections4 General Conclusion; Appendixes; A: General Areas of Sexual Behaviour Covered in the Penitentials; B: Periods of Sexual Abstinence; C: Penances as Measures of Gravity; D: Homosexuality and the Penitentials; E: Notes on the Language of the Penitentials; Notes; Bibliography; Tables of Reference; General Index

Notes:

Reprinted in 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7959-4

OCLC:

1129201165