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Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.
List of contents
Introduction: A History of Calamities: The Culture of Castration - Larissa Tracy
Raised Voices: The Archaeology of Castration - Kathryn Reusch
The Aesthetics of Castration: The Beauty of Roman Eunuchs - Shaun Tougher
Appropriation and Development of Castration as Symbol and Practice in Early Christianity - Jack Collins
'Al defouleden is holie bodi': Castration, the Sexualization ofTorture, and Anxieties of Identity in the
South English Legendary - Larissa Tracy
The Children He Never Had; The Husband She Never Served:Castration and Genital Mutilation in Medieval Frisian Law - Rolf H. Bremmer
The
Fulmannod Society: Social Valuing of the (Male) Legal Subject - Jay Paul Gates
'Imbrued in their owne bloud': Castration in Early Welsh and Irish Sources - Charlene Eska
Castrating Monks: Vikings, the Slave Trade, and the Value of Eunuchs - Mary A. Valante
'He took a stone away': Castration and Cruelty in the Old Norse
Sturlunga saga - Anthony Adams
The Castrating of the Shrew: The Performance of Masculinity and Masculine Identity in
La dame escolliee - Mary E Leech
Eunuchs of the Grail - Jed Chandler
Insinuating Indeterminate Gender: A Castration Motif in Guillaume de Lorris's
Romans de la rose - Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
Culture Loves a Void: Eunuchry in Eunuchry in
De Vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's
La Vieille - Robert L. A. Clark
The Dismemberment of Will: Early Modern Fear of Castration - Lena Wånggren and Karin Sellberg
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Larissa Tracy
Summary
Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.
