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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:13:36 +0000
Subject: naughty nuns
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I have read the recent correspondence with regard to nuns and sex
with interest. May I be so immodest as to refer list-members to my
article "Sex & Sexuality in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art" in
ed. D. Erlach et al., "Privatisierung der Triebe? sexualitat in der
Fruhen neuzeit" [Fruhneuzeit-Studien, Bd.1] (Peter Lang, Frankfurt,
etc., 1994), 187-304, in which several relevant incidents are cited.
On a related topic -- English readers may be reminded of Benny Hill
here -- I am currently investigated the famous Dutch flogging friar,
Brother Cornelius/Broer Cornelis whose penchant, apparently, was
to insist on flagellatory penances for the women he confessed, which he
administered personally -- there are early 17thC prints and he was
clearly notorious (and a useful stick with which Protestant
polemicists might beat their Catholic opponents -- oh dear!) in the
late 16th and early 17th centuries. Post-medieval, I fear, but I
should be glad for any further refs.
Malcolm Jones
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