ISBN:
0199282226
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 254 p)
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Kieckhefer, Richard Magic and impotence in the Middle Ages. By Catherine Rider. Pp. xiv+254. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. £50. 0 19 928222 6; 978 0 19 928222 7 2008
Parallel Title:
Print version Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages
DDC:
392.6/094/0902
Keywords:
Magic History To 1500
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Sex in marriage History To 1500
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Impotence Treatment To 1500
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History
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Hochschulschrift
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Magic and Impotence in the Middle Ages investigates the common medieval belief that magic could cause impotence, focusing particularly on the period 1150-1450. The subject has never been studied in detail before, but there is a surprisingly large amount of information about it in four kinds of source: confessors' manuals; medical compendia that discussed many illnesses; commentaries on canon law; and theological commentaries on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. Although most historians of medieval culture focus on only one or two of these kinds of source, a broader comparison reveals that mediev
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Abbreviations and Citations; 1. Introduction; 2. 'My lady knows impious things': Impotence Magic in the Ancient World; 3. 'What adulterous women do': The Early Middle Ages, c.800-c.1100; 4. Impotence Magic Enters the Academic World, 1100-1190; 5. How to Bind a Man or Woman: Impotence in the Magical Texts; 6. 'Everywhere on Earth, certain idolatries reign': Pastoral Literature, 1200-1400; 7. Annulment Procedures and Frivolous Cures: Canon Law, 1200-1400; 8. Necromancers, Confessions, and the Power of Demons: Theology, 1220-1400; 9. Herbs and Magic: Medicine, 1240-1400
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Impotence Magic and the Rise of WitchcraftConclusion; Appendix 1: 'On those who, impeded by magic, cannot have intercourse': Pantegni, 'Practica' Book 8, Chapter 29, and the Remedies Against Magic; Appendix 2: Cases of Magically-Caused Impotence, 800-1450; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-247) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199282227.001.0001
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