Also, Jean Gerson wrote on this topic and on masturbation. The former
treatise appeared in several editions.
Tom Izbicki
At 10:14 AM 8/30/2000 +0100, you wrote:
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>> 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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