The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France Around 1200

by John W. Baldwin

Book Overview

This study brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion a comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world.

John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the Prose Salernitan Questions, for the medical theories of Galen; Andre the Chaplain,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226036146
• ISBN13: 9780226036144
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"