medieval manuscripts with pictures of self castration

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These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The Dismemberment of Will: Early Modern Fear of Castration - Lena Wånggren and Karin Sellberg Insinuating Indeterminate Gender: A Castration Motif in Guillaume de Lorris's Romans de la rose - Ellen Lorraine FriedrichĬulture Loves a Void: Eunuchry in Eunuchry in De Vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's La Vieille - Robert L. The Castrating of the Shrew: The Performance of Masculinity and Masculine Identity in La dame escolliee - Mary E Leech 'He took a stone away': Castration and Cruelty in the Old Norse Sturlunga saga - Anthony Adams

'Imbrued in their owne bloud': Castration in Early Welsh and Irish Sources - Charlene EskaĬastrating Monks: Vikings, the Slave Trade, and the Value of Eunuchs - Mary A. The Fulmannod Society: Social Valuing of the (Male) Legal Subject - Jay Paul Gates The Children He Never Had The Husband She Never Served:Castration and Genital Mutilation in Medieval Frisian Law - Rolf H. 'Al defouleden is holie bodi': Castration, the Sexualization ofTorture, and Anxieties of Identity in the South English Legendary - Larissa Tracy The Aesthetics of Castration: The Beauty of Roman Eunuchs - Shaun TougherĪppropriation and Development of Castration as Symbol and Practice in Early Christianity - Jack Collins Raised Voices: The Archaeology of Castration - Kathryn Reusch Introduction: A History of Calamities: The Culture of Castration - Larissa Tracy Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A. Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University.Ĭontributors: Larissa Tracy, Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H.

The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle ages, Abelard. 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. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. 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. 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.

Medieval manuscripts with pictures of self castration