IMC 2013: Sessions
Session 620: Canon Law, V: Sexual Pleasure and Medieval Canon Law - Law in Action
Tuesday 2 July 2013, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Iuris Canonici Medii Aevi Consociatio (ICMAC) / Church, Law & Society in the Middle Ages |
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Organiser: | Mia Korpiola, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki |
Moderator/Chair: | Christof Rolker, Exzellenzcluster 'Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration', Universität Konstanz |
Paper 620-a | Sexual Misbehaviour of Prelates, Mid-12th to Mid-14th Centuries: Evidence from Papal Judicial Inquiries (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Sexuality |
Paper 620-b | Sexual Misbehaviour in 14th- and 15th-Century France (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Sexuality |
Paper 620-c | Sexual Misbehaviour of Prelates in the 15th-Century (Language: English) Index terms: Canon Law, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Sexuality |
Abstract | These two sessions use occurances and condemnations of sexual pleasure in medieval canon law to answer basic questions relating to the role of ecclesiastical law in every day life. How did canon law function locally, and what were its practical uses? What stories do legal documents tell, that can help formulate our understanding of medieval ideas of sexual pleasure? And how far were legal sources used to create or enforce societal norms surrounding the idea of sexual pleasure? |