Tracy Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78204-110-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 365 Seiten

Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tracy, Larissa

Weitere Mitwirkende

Adams, Anthony

Eska, Charlene

Friedrich, Ellen Lorraine

Collins, Jack

Gates, Jay Paul

Chandler, Jed

Sellberg, Karin

Reusch, Kathryn

Tracy, Larissa

Wånggren, Lena

Valante, Mary A.

Leech, Mary E

Clark, Robert L. A.

Bremmer, Rolf H.

Tougher, Shaun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A History of Calamities: The Culture of Castration - Larissa Tracy
Raised Voices: The Archaeology of Castration - Kathryn Reusch
The Aesthetics of Castration: The Beauty of Roman Eunuchs - Shaun Tougher
Appropriation and Development of Castration as Symbol and Practice in Early Christianity - Jack Collins
'Al defouleden is holie bodi': Castration, the Sexualization of Torture, and Anxieties of Identity in the South English Legendary - Larissa Tracy
The Children He Never Had; The Husband She Never Served: Castration and Genital Mutilation in Medieval Frisian Law - Rolf H. Bremmer
The Fulmannod Society: Social Valuing of the (Male) Legal Subject - Jay Paul Gates
'Imbrued in their owne bloud': Castration in Early Welsh and Irish Sources - Charlene Eska
Castrating Monks: Vikings, the Slave Trade, and the Value of Eunuchs - Mary A. Valante
'He took a stone away': Castration and Cruelty in the Old Norse Sturlunga saga - Anthony Adams
The Castrating of the Shrew: The Performance of Masculinity and Masculine Identity in La dame escolliee - Mary E Leech
Eunuchs of the Grail - Jed Chandler
Insinuating Indeterminate Gender: A Castration Motif in Guillaume de Lorris's Romans de la rose - Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
Culture Loves a Void: Eunuchry in Eunuchry in De Vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's La Vieille - Robert L. A. Clark
The Dismemberment of Will: Early Modern Fear of Castration - Lena Wånggren and Karin Sellberg

Über Autor(innen)

Tracy Larissa:
Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity.Tracy Larissa:
Larissa Tracy is Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. She has published extensively on medieval violence and its intersections with literature, law, medicine, and social identity.