Sex, law and marriage in the Middle Ages / James A. Brundage.

Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, [1993], ©1993.

1 volume (various pagings) ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographic references and index

Carnal delight: canonistic theories of sexuality.--'Allas! That evere love was synne': sex and medieval canon law.--'Better to marry than to burn?': the case of the vanishing dichotomy.--Sexuality, marriage, and the reform of Christian society in the thought of Gregory VII.--Sex and canon law: a statistical analysis of samples of canon and civil law.--Sexual equality in medieval canon law.--Concubinage and marriage in medieval canon law.--Rape and marriage in the medieval canon law.--Marriage and sexuality in the decretals of Pope Alexander III.--Impotence, frigidity and marital nullity in the decretists and the early decretalists.--Let me count the ways: canonists and theologians contemplate coital positions.--The treatment of marriage in the Questiones Londinenses (MS Royal 9.E.VII).--Intermarriage between Christians and Jews in medieval canon law.--Prostitution in the medieval canon law.--Sumptuary laws and prostitution in late medieval Italy.--Matrimonial politics in thirteenth-century Aragon: Moncada v. Urgel.--The Politics of sodomy: Rex v. Pons Hugh de Ampurias (1311).

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