Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages

Larissa Tracy

Introduction: A History of Calamities: The Culture of Castration - Larissa Tracy Raised Voices: The Archaeology of Castration - Kathryn Reusch The Aesthetics of Castration: The Beauty of Roman Eunuchs - Shaun Tougher Appropriation and Development of Castration as Symbol and Practice in Early Christianity - Jack Collins 'Al defouleden is holie bodi': Castration, the Sexualization of Torture, and Anxieties of Identity in the South English Legendary - Larissa Tracy The Children He Never Had; The Husband She Never Served: Castration and Genital Mutilation in Medieval Frisian Law - Rolf H. Bremmer The Fulmannod Society: Social Valuing of the (Male) Legal Subject - Jay Paul Gates 'Imbrued in their owne bloud': Castration in Early Welsh and Irish Sources - Charlene Eska Castrating Monks: Vikings, the Slave Trade, and the Value of Eunuchs - Mary A. Valante 'He took a stone away': Castration and Cruelty in the Old Norse Sturlunga saga - Anthony Adams The Castrating of the Shrew: The Performance of Masculinity and Masculine Identity in La dame escolliee - Mary E Leech Eunuchs of the Grail - Jed Chandler Insinuating Indeterminate Gender: A Castration Motif in Guillaume de Lorris's Romans de la rose - Ellen Lorraine Friedrich Culture Loves a Void: Eunuchry in Eunuchry in De Vetula and Jean Le Fèvre's La Vieille - Robert L. A. Clark The Dismemberment of Will: Early Modern Fear of Castration - Lena Wånggren and Karin Sellberg