This book examines the history of sex and gender from a linguistic, artistic, and philosophical perspective, providing a new paradigm with which to analyze this controversial subject. Glenn Olsen's wide-ranging scholarship and his attention to primary sources and contemporary interpretations are enhanced by the inclusion of numerous illustrations of Romanesque sculpture. Part one takes the reader on a journey from the ancient world through the early middle ages, examining literature, art, and sculpture in order to capture the 'sexual imagination' of the period. Olsen emphasizes that all centuries had a varied language of sex, focusing on the means by which 'sex' was put into words, especially in penitentials and canon law. He shows there was no single understanding of gender and power relationships, arguing that the story of gender should encompass more than the history of power. Part two turns to Peter Damian, especially his Epistle 31, the so-called Book of Gomorrah. Olsen explores the themes of nature, sin, demonic incitement, lust, free will, and effeminacy, as well as the question of whether Damian represented the onset of the 'persecuting society.'
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [425]-503) and index
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 306.709
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780888441768 9781771101370
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- HQ12
- LCCN Item number
- O47 2011eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiii, 523 pages, 29 unumbered pages of plates)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00913085 (OCoLC)887634758 (CaOOCEL)440355
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- Title proper/short title
- Sodomy in the age of Peter Damian
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Table of Contents
- Sodomy in the Age of Peter Damian 3
- GLENN W. OLSEN 3
- Translated by hugh mcdonald with the collaboration of the author 3
- Acknowledgements 4
- Universität Regensburg 5
- Contents 5
- Universität Regensburg 6
- List of Illustrations 7
- Abbreviations 11
- Universität Regensburg 45
- Introduction 45
- Universität Regensburg 57
- Naming Sodomy 57
- Universität Regensburg 91
- Gender and Power 91
- Universität Regensburg 143
- Terms of Endearment 143
- Universität Regensburg 176
- The Sexual Subject 176
- Universität Regensburg 247
- Peter Damians Letter 31 and Eleventh-Century Reform 247
- Universität Regensburg 307
- Sodomy in Damians Letter 31 307
- Universität Regensburg 334
- Nature and Sins Against Nature in Damians Letter 31 334
- Universität Regensburg 373
- Universität Regensburg 431
- The Devil You Say Lust Free Will and Efeminacy in Damians Letter 31 431
- Universität Regensburg 464
- Afterword 464
- Universität Regensburg 469
- Bibliography 469
- Universität Regensburg 548
- Index 548
