The Elasticity and Rigidity of Europe - Xenophobia - Sexualities
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What was sexual intercourse except that between a husband and wife considered to be?
What did Justinian think about deviance?
What was expected from priests during the Gregorian reform?
- During the Gregorian reform, priests were strictly barred from marrying, and their chastity was touted as the foundation of their power and virtue.
- Priestly "sexuality" was unthinkable; lay sexuality other than for the narrow purpose of procreation within the confines of marriage was condemned.
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How did people outside the Church think about sex?
What did troubadours think of sex?
- Medieval troubadours sang of the kisses they stole from their ladies; Lancelot was frankly in love with the wife of King Arthur, and his and Guinevere's joyful love-making was the delight of the courtly audiences that heard about it in oral performances or read about it in books.
- The troubadour Tribolet played with pronouns, making the "one he loves" masculine rather than feminine.
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What is the story of Rolandina Roncaglia?
- Rolandina Roncaglia was born with male genitals, but she nevertheless passed for years as a woman and practiced prostitution with men.
- The judges refused to accept her gender change and sentenced her to be burned to death as a man, Rolandino, for "sodomitic sin."
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