Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages

by Larissa Tracy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184384351X
• ISBN13: 9781843843511
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"