Much earlier, check John Cassian. I found a reference to Te lucis in his
work using the Patrologia latina database. Might nnt other texts purely
for monastics, like commentaries on monastic rules, address this?
Tom Izbicki
At 01:25 PM 8/30/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>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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