From Texts to Bodies

Introduction

PART I: WOMEN, MARRIAGE, AND GENDER

1. Kinship and Friendship: The Perception of Family by Clergy and Laity in Late Medieval London. In Albion 20, no. 3 (1988): 369-385.

2. Individualism and Consensual Marriage: Some Evidence from Medieval England. In Women, Marriage, and the Family in Medieval Christendom. Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, edited by Joel T. Rosenthal and Constance M. Rousseau, 121-151. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1998.

3. The Absent Penitent: The Cure of Women's Souls and Confessors' Manuals in Thirteenth-Century England. In Women, the Book, and the Godly, edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor, 13-25. London: Boydell and Brewer, 1995.

4. On the Origins and Role of 'Wise Women' in Causes for Annulment on the Grounds of Male Impotence. In Journal of Medieval History 16, no. 3 (1990): 235-249.

5. Twice Marginal and Twice Invisible: Lesbians in the Middle Ages. In Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, 191-211. New York: Garland, 1996.

6. Thinking about Gender: The Diversity of Medieval Perspectives. In Power of the Weak: Women in the Middle Ages, edited by J. Carpenter and S. B. Maclean, 1-26. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

PART II: SEXUALITIES AND GENDERS

7. Gendered Souls in Sexed Bodies: The Male Construction of Sexuality in Some Medieval Confessor's Manuals. In Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages, edited by Peter Biller and A. J. Minnis, York Studies in Medieval Theology, vol. 2, 79-93. York, Eng.: Boydell and Brewer, 1998.

8. Historicizing Sex, Sexualizing History. In Writing Medieval History, edited by Nancy Partner, 133-52. London: Hodder, 2005. Reprint, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.

9. The Sexual Body. In A Cultural History of the Body in the Medieval Age, vol. 2, A Cultural History of the Human Body, edited by Linda Kalof, 59-75. Oxford: Berg, 2010.

10. Sexuality and Spirituality: The Intersection of Medieval Theology and Medicine. In Fides et Historia 23, no. 1 (1991): 20-36.

11. Agnolo Firenzuola on Female Sexuality and Women's Equality. In Sixteenth Century Journal 22, no. 1 (1991): 199-213.

12. One Flesh, Two Sexes, Three Genders? In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives, edited by Lisa Bitel and Felice Lifshitz, 52-75. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

PART III: MEN AND MASCULINITIES

13. Hiding Behind the Universal Man: Male Sexuality in the Middle Ages. In Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, 123-52. New York: Garland, 1996.

14. 'The law of sin that is in my members': The Problem of Male Embodiment. In Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, and Saints in Late Medieval Europe, edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih, 9-22. London: Routledge, 2002.

15. Masculinizing Religious Life: Sexual Prowess, the Battle for Chastity, and Monastic Identity. In Holiness and Masculinity, edited by Katherine J. Lewis and Patricia Callum, 24-42. Cardiff: University of Wales Press; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

16. Men's Bodies, Men's Minds: Seminal Emissions and Sexual Anxiety in the Middle Ages. In Annual Review of Sex Research 8, no. 1 (1997): 1-26.

17. Mystical Castration: Some Reflections on Peter Abelard, Hugh of Lincoln, and Sexual Control. In Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West, edited by Jacqueline Murray, 73-91. New York: Garland Press, 1999.

18. Sexual Mutilation and Castration Anxiety: A Medieval Perspective. In The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, edited by Matthew Kuefler, 254-272. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

19. The Battle for Chastity: Miraculous Castration and the Quelling of Desire in the Middle Ages. In Journal of the History of Sexuality 28, no. 1 (2019): 96-116.

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