Sex, Dissidence and Damnation : Minority Groups in the Middle Ages

ISBN-13: 9780415071475 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 192 str.

Jeffrey Richards

Opis

For the authorities in medieval Europe, both secular and ecclesiastical, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. To allow a single heretic to escape just punishment would, it was believed, result in the decay and dissolution of the whole structure of society. So dissent was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, but before long with increasing savagery: by torture and imprisonment, fire and the sword. In examining the persecuted lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals, Jeffrey Richards has uncovered a common motive for their sufferings: sexual aberrance.

Recenzje

`fascinating study ... brilliantly illuminated by Richards with the help of excellent illustrations.' - Sunday Telegraph

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Medieval Context; Chapter 2 Sex in the Middle Ages; Chapter 3 Heretics; Chapter 4 Witches; Chapter 5 Jews; Chapter 6 Prostitutes; Chapter 7 Homosexuals; Chapter 8 Lepers;

O autorze

Richards, Jeffrey