04241nam 2200541 a 450 99624790290331620221108060016.01-5017-2762-110.7591/9781501727627(dli)HEB04154(CKB)1000000000396707(DE-B1597)515127(OCoLC)1129160839(DE-B1597)9781501727627(MiAaPQ)EBC31191156(Au-PeEL)EBL31191156(EXLCZ)99100000000039670719890105d1989 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSex and society in the world of the orthodox Slavs, 900-1700 /Eve Levin1st ed.Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press1989xiv, 326 p. ill. ;25 cmIncludes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Ecclesiastical Image of Sexuality -- Chapter 2. Marriage -- Chapter 3. Incest -- Chapter 4. Illicit Sex -- Chapter 5. Rape -- Chapter 6. Sex and the Clergy -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- IndexIn this pioneering book, Eve Levin explores sexual behavior among the peoples of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Russia from their conversion to Christianity in the ninth and tenth centuries until the end of the seventeenth century. By ranging across all these societies, Levin is able to fulfill three basic aims: to delineate the general character of sexuality among the Orthodox Slavs, to enrich that account by drawing our attention to regional variations in the sexual mores of these peoples, and to draw suggestive comparisons between the world of the medieval Orthodox Slavs and their contemporaries in the Latin West.Levin begins with a study of the ecclesiastical image of sexuality as expressed in didactic and literary texts, showing that the Orthodox Church was deeply suspicious of sexuality. Her second chapter, on canon law and marfiage, examines the conditions for marriage, divorce, and remarriage, the obligation of the conjugal relationship, and the impact of these rules on social order. Levin looks at church regulations concerning sexual relations among relatives by blood, marriage, spiritual kinship, and adoption in Chapter Three, and she devotes Chapter Four to prohibited sexual practices, both inside and outside of marriage. In the fifth chapter she studies Russian and South Slavic responses to rape, and demonstrates that these societies simultaneously censured violence against women and sanctioned the attitudes and social structures that justified it. Chapter Six deals with the rules on sexual conduct for the clergy, whose job it was to enforce sexual precepts. Throughout her work, Levin argues that, despite its conviction that sexual expression was diabolical, the medieval Orthodox Church approached sexual matters in a surprisingly practical way; its official sexual ethic corresponded to a great degree with popular views.Historians of the Slavic world, both medieval and modern, will welcome this accessible study. It should also attract comparativists who work in such fields as church history, the history of women and the family, and the history of sexuality.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Sex customsEurope, EasternHistorySlavsSexual behaviorHistoryOrthodox (Orthodox Eastern Church)Sexual behaviorEurope, EasternHistorySexReligious aspectsOrthodox Eastern ChurchHistorySex customsHistory.SlavsSexual behaviorHistory.Orthodox (Orthodox Eastern Church)Sexual behaviorHistory.SexReligious aspectsOrthodox Eastern ChurchHistory.306.7/0947Levin Eve1954-734723American Council of Learned Societies.MiUMiUBOOK996247902903316Sex and society in the world of the orthodox Slavs, 900-17002409934UNISA