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David Walker * Timelines Classical Later Antiquity Islamic World Medieval India Byzantium Renaissance Africana * Home * Classical + Presocratics + Socrates and Plato + Aristotle * Later Antiquity + Hellenistic + Late Antiquity + Ancient Christianity * Islamic World + Formative Period + Andalusia + Eastern Traditions * Medieval + Early Medieval + Thirteenth Century + Fourteenth Century * India + Origins + Age of the Sutra + Buddhists and Jains * Africana * Timelines * Blog * Comments * Links * Byzantine 293. The Good Wife: Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages Posted on 14 January 2018 Medieval attitudes towards homosexuality, sex and chastity, and the status of women. Authors discussed include Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Chaucer. Download * < prev * next > * Themes: Literature Love and Sexuality Women and Gender rss feed link itunes link Further Reading • P. Allen, The Concept of Woman, vol.1: the Aristotelian Revolution, 750BC-AD 1250 (Montreal: 1985). • A. Blamires, The Case for Women in Medieval Culture (Oxford: 1997). • V.L. Bullough and J.A. Brundage (eds), Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (New York: 1996). • C.W. Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Berkeley: 1987). • C.W. Bynum, Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion (New York: 1992). • C. Dinshaw and D. Wallace, Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing (Cambridge: 2003). • P. Dronke, Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Cambridge: 1984). • M.H. Green, Making Women’s Medicine Masculine: the Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology (Oxford: 2008). • M.D. Jordan, The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (Chicago: 1997). • K. Pratt and C.W. Marx (eds), Woman Defamed and Woman Defended (Oxford: 1992). • C. Muessig, G. Ferzoco and B.M. Kienzle (eds), A Companion to Catherine of Siena (Leiden: 2012). • A.B. Mulder-Bakker (ed.), Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe 1200-1550 (Turnhout: 2004). Add new comment Your name * ______________________________ E-mail * ______________________________ The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly. If you have a Gravatar account associated with the e-mail address you provide, it will be used to display your avatar. Homepage ______________________________ Subject ____________________________________________________________ Comment * ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Switch to plain text editor More information about text formats Text format [Commenter____] Commenter * Allowed HTML tags:

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    1. * No HTML tags allowed. * Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. * Lines and paragraphs break automatically. CAPTCHA This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. Save Leave this field blank ____________________ Comments Monica Green's picture Additional bibliography on Episode 292 Submitted by Monica Green on 14 January 2018 Works of Ruth Karras would be excellent addition to your bibliography: Ruth Mazo KARRAS, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others (New York: Routledge, 2005) Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) Ruth Mazo Karras, Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) Ruth Mazo Karras * reply Peter Adamson's picture Karras Submitted by Peter Adamson on 14 January 2018 Great, thanks Monica! (Did you listen to the episode yet? At one point I quote from your work, I think about the misogynist book from Chaucer's Wife of Bath.) In general I think the potential literature on this is vaster than any topic I have covered for the whole middle ages. Thanks for this pointer for me and the listeners, and maybe other people will have further recommendations. * reply Scott M. Williams's picture Christine de Pizan Submitted by Scott M. Williams on 9 February 2018 Do you know if you'll do an episode on Christine de Pizan? Her text, The Book of the City of Ladies, is definitely worth our while from a philosophical point of view. (On big topic is Epistemic Injustice in relation to moral / intellectual equality of men and women.) * reply Peter Adamson's picture Christine Submitted by Peter Adamson on 9 February 2018 I am a BIG FAN of her and in fact have found a way to cover her twice, sort of. In the upcoming episode on Jean Gerson I cover the debate over the Romance of the Rose, and Christine appears there as a critic of course. Then I have actually already written a further episode on her other works, but you will have to wait for that - it will appear towards the start of the Renaissance series. * reply Bear's picture Infertility Submitted by Bear on 18 February 2018 Thank you for a well-balanced discussion on a subject which is often treated in a lurid manner. I would observe that there is one point in which I would quibble a little - the question of infertile couples, and the licitness of this. It was generally accepted that it was is because they did not take active steps to make themselves infertile. However, there is an interesting link between infertility and grounds for marrital annulment. Upon entering a marriage, if one party knows that he or she is infertile and does not inform the other party, then the marriage is not considered valid - it is called a defect of person. If, on the other hand, the other party is informed and still goes through with the marriage, then it is considered valid. * reply Views: 11307 Episodes 265 - 300: Fourteenth Century zip-file 265. Introduction to 14th Century 266. Pink on the Will 267. Marguerite Porete 268. Dante Alighieri 269. Church and State 270. Marsilius of Padua 271. Ockham on Ethics and Politics 272. Ockham’s Nominalism 273. Ockham on Mental Language 274. Brower-Toland on Ockham 275. Responses to Ockham 276. Foreknowledge and Predestination 277. 14th Century Logic 278. Uckelman on Obligations 279. Oxford Calculators 280. 14th Century Physics 281. Green on Medicine 282. John Buridan 283. Zupko on Buridan 284. Autrecourt's Skepticism 285. Perler on Skepticism 286. Medieval Economic Theory 287. Meister Eckhart 288. German Dominicans 289. Angels 290. Pickavé on Emotions 291. English Mysticism 292. Chaucer and Langland 293. Gender and Sexuality 294. Davis on Chaucer 295. Jean Gerson 296. John Wyclif 297. Scholasticism Across Europe 298. Ramon Llull and Petrarch 299. Pasnau on Substance 300a. Ancient Philosophy Today 300b. Medieval Philosophy Today * * * Themes * Blog * Links * FAQ * Comments * About Us * Bonus Episodes * *