The Medieval Chastity Belt
The Medieval Chastity Belt

Author: A. Classen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-03-19

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0230603092

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The chastity belt is one of those objects people have commonly identified with the 'dark' Middle Ages. This book analyzes the origin of this myth and demonstrates how a convenient misconception, or contorted imagination, of an allegedly historical practice has led to profoundly flawed interpretations of control mechanisms used by jealous husbands.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Author: R. A. Waldron

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780810103283

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Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Against Jovinianus
Against Jovinianus

Author: St. Jerome

Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company

Published: 2019-12-07

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1987022882

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Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (A New Verse Translation)

Author:

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2008-11-17

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0393334155

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One of the earliest great stories of English literature after ?Beowulf?, ?Sir Gawain? is the strange tale of a green knight on a green horse, who rudely interrupts King Arthur's Round Table festivities one Yuletide, challenging the knights to a wager. Simon Armitrage, one of Britain's leading poets, has produced an inventive and groundbreaking translation that " helps] liberate ?Gawain ?from academia" (?Sunday Telegraph?).

Male Chastity
Male Chastity

Author: Lucy Fairbourne

Publisher:

Published: 2007-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781905605149

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A non-threatening, female-friendly introduction to the topic of male chastity, ideal for nervous keyholders or as a love-offering from a would-be-chastened male.

Misconceptions About the Middle Ages
Misconceptions About the Middle Ages

Author: Stephen Harris

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-05-26

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1135986673

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Brought together by an impressive, international array of contributors this book presents a representative study of some of the many misinterpretations that have evolved concerning the medieval period.