Description: Further DetailsTitle: Castration and Culture in the Middle AgesCondition: NewISBN-10: 1843845245EAN: 9781843845249ISBN: 9781843845249Publisher: D.S. BrewerFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/15/2019Description: Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervadesa number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated upon the exchange or absence of sexual desire signified by genitalia - but the plain, literal act of castration and its implications are often overlooked. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. Its subjects includearchaeological studies of eunuchs; historical accounts of castration in trials of combat; the mutilation of political rivals in medieval Wales; Anglo-Saxon and Frisian legal and literary examples of castration as punishment; castration as comedy in the Old French fabliaux; the prohibition against genital mutilation in hagiography; and early-modern anxieties about punitive castration enacted on the Elizabethan stage. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle ages, Abelard. Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Larissa Tracy, Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Jay Paul Gates, Charlene M. Eska, Mary A. Valante, Anthony Adams, Mary E. Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A. Clark, Karin Sellberg, LenaWånggrenLanguage: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmContributor: Jay Paul Gates (Contributions by), Charlene Eska (Contributions by), Rolf H. Bremmer (Contributions by), Mary A. Valante (Contributions by), Kathryn Reusch (Contributions by), Larissa Tracy (Edited by), Jed Chandler (Contributions by), Ellen Lorraine Friedrich (Contributions by), Larissa Tracy (Contributions by), Shaun Tougher (Contributions by), Mary E Leech (Contributions by), Anthony Adams (Contributions by), Lena Wånggren (Contributions by), Karin Sellberg (Contributions by), Jack Collins (Contributions by), Robert L. A. Clark (Contributions by)Genre: Literary CriticismItem Weight: 1gAuthor: Charlene EskaRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Title: Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
ISBN-10: 1843845245
EAN: 9781843845249
ISBN: 9781843845249
Release Date: 03/15/2019
Release Year: 2019
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Robert L. A. Clark (Contributions by)
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 365 Pages
Publication Name: Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Archaeology, Medieval, Men's Studies, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
