
The Fires of Lust
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By exploring their sex lives, the book brings ordinary medieval people to life, and reveals details of their most personal thoughts and experiences. Ultimately, it provides us with an important and intimate connection to the past.
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Masterful. There is no better guide to what occurs betwixt the sheets of the medieval bedroom than Katherine Harvey. The Fires of Lust - an absolute triumph.' * Kate Lister, author of A Curious History of Sex and Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts * With unabashed directness, a delicate touch of wit, and constant humanity, Katherine Harvey surveys the world of medieval sex and sexuality. Throughout The Fires of Lust she situates the twin themes of morality and medicine in the social and material world that medieval people inhabited. What those people thought, felt, feared and hoped for all play a part, alongside the pronouncements of theologians, lawmakers and intellectuals. Here, in its messy complexity, is medieval life - life laid bare, but always with respect and care. A triumph.' * John H. Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge, author of Belief and Unbelief in the Middle Ages * Learned, fun, and full of surprises - a fascinating, wide-ranging guide to medieval sexual attitudes and experiences.' * Fara Dabhoiwala, author of The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution * A lively and readable account rooted in a deep knowledge of the scholarly literature on sexuality in medieval western Europe. Harvey's specialism in the history of medicine provides particular depth, and is integrated with legal and cultural material to create a sparkling and convincing whole.' * Ruth Mazo Karras * The story of Simon the goat-lover is just one of hundreds of weird and wonderful anecdotes that rub together in Katherine Harvey's jaunty study of late-medieval sex . . . Her book is an enjoyable romp, smart as well as funny. It left me fully satisfied, with a big smile on my face.' * Dan Jones, Sunday Times * When does sex become rumpy-pumpy? . . . By the Middle Ages sex is indisputably odd. Reading Katherine Harvey's The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages, I found myself thinking: weird, weirder and, occasionally, whoa! This is an eye-watering, jaw-dropping, blush-raising book. Harvey, a medieval historian and honorary research fellow at Birkbeck, has peeped through the keyhole of the past and caught the Middle Ages in flagrante. The tone is spot-on: curious but not prurient; correct yet amused.' * Laura Freeman, The Times * An expansive, accessible and highly engaging account of what we do - and don't - know about western European sexual culture in the Middle Ages. The book offers multiple insights into the realities of medieval sex. * BBC History magazine *Weitere Details
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Inhalt
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Guiding Principles
- 2: Getting Together
- 3: Sex within Marriage
- 4: Reproduction
- 5: The Battle for Chastity
- 6: Immoral Behaviours
- 7: Defying Sexual Norms: Positions and Partners
- 8: Defying Sexual Norms: Religion and Race
- 9: Prostitution
- 10: Sexual Violence
- 11: Sex in Culture
- Conclusion
- References
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index
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