Travels Through The Dark Realms Of Medieval Clerical Fantasies: Sex And Erotica In The Infernal Testimony
Juliette Bourdier
Medieval testimonies brought back by Christian voyagers into Hell delve the infernal punishments administered to souls of sinners. In this literature, written monks for monks, emphasis on sexual deviations is indicative a constant battle repress desire, as well need destroy object desire. The punitive treatment those who violate rules and allow themselves be corrupted lust, elicits variety fantasies where torture, cruelty, lechery are fused together in unbridled poetry. pursuance worship chastity, bodies, which should separated chaste Earth, instead mixed naked desecrated Hell. condemning eroticism result describing sexuality that considerably more seditious. This paper analyzes extent literature allows study attitude adopted towards practices.
Comitatus-a Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies