Dyan Elliot discusses nocturnal emissions in the first chapter of her book
Fallen Bodies; Pollution, Sexuality and Demonology in the Middle Ages (U.
Penn, 1999) - and was previously published in Lochrie, et al, Constructing
Medieval Sexualities.
cheers
john arnold
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> Salih
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> 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.
> >
> >
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