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Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages Larissa Tracy

Name: Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages Larissa Tracy
SKU: BELL-38199364
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Publisher: BOYE6

File Extension: PDF

File size: 6.65 MB

Pages: 365

Author: Larissa Tracy

ISBN: 9781843843511, 184384351X

Language: English

Year: 2013

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Castration And Culture In The Middle Ages Larissa Tracy by Larissa Tracy 9781843843511, 184384351X instant download after payment.

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.