LEADER 04327nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910818358203321 005 20240418021409.0 010 $a1-283-21120-3 010 $a9786613211200 010 $a0-8122-0073-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200737 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050918 035 $a(OCoLC)608926662 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491898 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000543662 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11352928 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543662 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10531464 035 $a(PQKB)11731060 035 $a(OCoLC)607101417 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3162 035 $a(DE-B1597)448925 035 $a(OCoLC)979577562 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200737 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441441 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491898 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321120 035 $a(OCoLC)748533336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441441 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050918 100 $a19980617h19991999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFallen bodies $epollution, sexuality, and demonology in the Middle Ages /$fDyan Elliott 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d1999. 210 4$aŠ1999 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 300 pages) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-1665-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-287) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray: Nocturnal Emissions and the Sexuality of the Clergy --$t2. From Sexual Fantasy to Demonic Defloration: The Libidinous Female in the Later Middle Ages --$t3. Sex in Holy Places: An Exploration of a Medieval Anxiety --$t4. The Priest's Wife: Female Erasure and the Gregorian Reform --$t5. Avatars of the Priest's Wife: The Return of the Repressed --$t6. On Angelic Disembodiment and the Incredible Purity of Demons --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aMedieval clerics believed that original sin had rendered their "fallen bodies" vulnerable to corrupting impulses?particularly those of a sexual nature. They feared that their corporeal frailty left them susceptible to demonic forces bent on penetrating and polluting their bodies and souls.Drawing on a variety of canonical and other sources, Fallen Bodies examines a wide-ranging set of issues generated by fears of pollution, sexuality, and demonology. To maintain their purity, celibate clerics combated the stain of nocturnal emissions; married clerics expelled their wives onto the streets and out of the historical record; an exemplum depicting a married couple having sex in church was told and retold; and the specter of the demonic lover further stigmatized women's sexuality. Over time, the clergy's conceptions of womanhood became radically polarized: the Virgin Mary was accorded ever greater honor, while real, corporeal women were progressively denigrated. When church doctrine definitively denied the physicality of demons, the female body remained as the prime material presence of sin.Dyan Elliott contends that the Western clergy's efforts to contain sexual instincts?and often the very thought and image of woman?precipitated uncanny returns of the repressed. She shows how this dynamic ultimately resulted in the progressive conflation of the female and the demonic, setting the stage for the future persecution of witches. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aDemonology$xHistory of doctrines$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 615 0$aSex$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aDemonology$xHistory of doctrines 676 $a261.8/357/0902 700 $aElliott$b Dyan$f1954-$0845302 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910818358203321 996 $aFallen bodies$94113129 997 $aUNINA