Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages (EPDF) von Larissa Tracy

Essays exploring medieval castration, as reflected in archaeology, law, historical record, and literary motifs.

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 theSouth 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
TheFulmannod 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 NorseSturlunga saga - Anthony Adams
The Castrating of the Shrew: The Performance of Masculinity and Masculine Identity inLa dame escolliee - Mary E Leech
Eunuchs of the Grail - Jed Chandler
Insinuating Indeterminate Gender: A Castration Motif in Guillaume de Lorris'sRomans de la rose - Ellen Lorraine Friedrich
Culture Loves a Void: Eunuchry in Eunuchry inDe Vetula and Jean Le Fèvre'sLa Vieille - Robert L. A. Clark
The Dismemberment of Will: Early Modern Fear of Castration - Lena Wånggren and Karin Sellberg