Castration and culture in the Middle Ages:
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. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabl...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. Metaphoric castration pervades a 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. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. Its subjects include archaeological 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. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle ages, Abelard. Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Larissa Tracy, Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Jay Paul Gates, Charlene M. Eska, Mary A. Valante, Anthony Adams, Mary E. Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A. Clark, Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren |
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| spelling | Castration and culture in the Middle Ages edited by Larissa Tracy Castration & Culture in the Middle Ages Suffolk Boydell & Brewer 2013 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 351 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) 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 defouled is holie bodi': castration, the sexualization of torture, 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 Jr. -- 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 M. 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 escollie / 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 leaves a void : eunuchry in De vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's La vieille / Robert L.A. Clark -- The dismemberment of will : early modern fear of castration / Karin Sellberg and Lena Wånggren 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. Metaphoric castration pervades a 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. This collection explores this often taboo subject and its implications for cultural mores and custom in Western Europe, seeking to demystify and demythologize castration. Its subjects include archaeological 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. The introduction reflects on these topics in the context of arguably the most well-known victim of castration in the middle ages, Abelard. Larissa Tracy is Associate Professor of Medieval Literature at Longwood University. Contributors: Larissa Tracy, Kathryn Reusch, Shaun Tougher, Jack Collins, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Jay Paul Gates, Charlene M. Eska, Mary A. Valante, Anthony Adams, Mary E. Leech, Jed Chandler, Ellen Lorraine Friedrich, Robert L.A. Clark, Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren Geschichte 500-1500 gnd rswk-swf Castration in literature Castration Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Civilization, Medieval Kastration (DE-588)4029906-5 gnd rswk-swf Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd rswk-swf Westeuropa (DE-588)4079215-8 gnd rswk-swf 1\p (DE-588)4143413-4 Aufsatzsammlung gnd-content Westeuropa (DE-588)4079215-8 g Kastration (DE-588)4029906-5 s Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 s Geschichte 500-1500 z 2\p DE-604 Tracy, Larissa 1974- (DE-588)1042668183 edt Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 978-1-84384-351-1 http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782041108/type/BOOK Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk 2\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Castration and culture in the Middle Ages 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 defouled is holie bodi': castration, the sexualization of torture, 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 Jr. -- 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 M. 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 escollie / 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 leaves a void : eunuchry in De vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's La vieille / Robert L.A. Clark -- The dismemberment of will : early modern fear of castration / Karin Sellberg and Lena Wånggren Castration in literature Castration Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Civilization, Medieval Kastration (DE-588)4029906-5 gnd Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd |
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| title_full | Castration and culture in the Middle Ages edited by Larissa Tracy |
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| topic | Castration in literature Castration Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Civilization, Medieval Kastration (DE-588)4029906-5 gnd Kultur (DE-588)4125698-0 gnd |
| topic_facet | Castration in literature Castration Literature, Medieval / History and criticism Civilization, Medieval Kastration Kultur Westeuropa Aufsatzsammlung |
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