Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval EuropeUniversity of Chicago Press, 15. feb. 2009 - 698 sider This monumental study of medieval law and sexual conduct explores the origin and develpment of the Christian church's sex law and the systems of belief upon which that law rested. Focusing on the Church's own legal system of canon law, James A. Brundage offers a comprehensive history of legal doctrines–covering the millennium from A.D. 500 to 1500–concerning a wide variety of sexual behavior, including marital sex, adultery, homosexuality, concubinage, prostitution, masturbation, and incest. His survey makes strikingly clear how the system of sexual control in a world we have half-forgotten has shaped the world in which we live today. The regulation of marriage and divorce as we know it today, together with the outlawing of bigamy and polygamy and the imposition of criminal sanctions on such activities as sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, and bestiality, are all based in large measure upon ideas and beliefs about sexual morality that became law in Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. "Brundage's book is consistently learned, enormously useful, and frequently entertaining. It is the best we have on the relationships between theological norms, legal principles, and sexual practice."—Peter Iver Kaufman, Church History |
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2 Sex and the Law in Judaism and Early Christianity | 51 |
3 Sex and the Law in the Christian Empire from Constantine to Justinian | 77 |
4 Law and Sex in Early Medieval Europe Sixth to Eleventh Centuries | 124 |
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6 Sex and Marriage in the Decretum of Gratian | 229 |
7 Sexual Behavior and the Early Decretists from Paucapalea to Huguccio 11401190 | 256 |
10 Sex Marriage and the Law from the Black Death to the Reformation 13481517 | 487 |
From the NinetyFive Theses to Tamesti 15171563 | 551 |
Recapitulation Reflections and Conclusions | 576 |
Tables | 597 |
Marriage Law and the Economic Interests of the Medieval Church | 606 |
Survivals of Medieval Sex Law in the United States and Western World | 608 |
List of Manuscripts Cited | 619 |
Select Secondary References | 621 |
8 Marriage and Sex in Canon Law from Alexander III to the Liber Extra | 325 |
9 Sex Marriage and the Legal Commentators 12341348 | 417 |
Index | 635 |
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Side 6 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition. It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life, nor is there any thing that will more deject his cooled imagination, when he shall consider what an odd and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed.