Daron Burrows, Trinity College, Oxford.
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> Dear Daron,
>
>
> I have a vague recollection that this subject is dealt with in J.A.
> Brundage, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe.
> Chicago 1987. However, I can not remember what and where exactly in
> that book nor have I it now in my shelf.
>
> Jussi Hanska
> University of Tampere
> Finland
>
Many thanks for the reference - I know the book, but have not read it. I
shall do now!
>
> P.S. Somehow I can not see anything poetic in castration, nor for
> that matter justice.
Nor can I - ouch! But I suppose that the "poetic justice" would reside in
the fact that the sexual misdemeanour is punished on the same terms, in
that the root of the problem, so to speak, is removed...
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