I think there may also be an article on the subject in
Lochrie et al, ed. *Constructing Medieval Sexualities* -
I'd be more precise, but my copy is at home. Jacqueline
Murray is interested in this topic - you might find
something by searching under her name.
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:14:36 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time)
Sarah Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > On a related problem (the hymn worries about "noctium phantasmata . . . ne
> > polluantur corpora") is anyone on the list aware of medieval (preferably
> > pre- 12th century) discussion of nocturnal pollution? I'm making in a
> > point in an article that on the whole, monastic authors of the middle
> > Middle Ages didn't worry much about bodily pollution, as much as theorists
> > and practitioners of some other religions might--the glaring exception to
> > this observation being the problem of "noctium phantasmata". (Were
> > medieval monastics indeed worried about this at all, or is this a concern
> > of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?)
>
> Conrad Leyser discusses this issue and (and its
> rhetorical significance) in 'Masculinity in flux: nocturnal
> emission and the limits of celibacy in the early Middle
> Ages', in D. M. Hadley, ed., Masculinity in medieval Europe
> (Longman: Harlow, 1999), 103-120. Janet Nelson also has
> some useful comments on this topic in her paper in the same
> volume: 'Monks, secular men and masculinity, c. 900',
> 121-142.
>
>
> Sarah Hamilton
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