Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 3914
Author(s): Dunkelman, Martha Levine.
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Title : Between Despair and Ecstasy: Marco Polo's Life of the Buddha [The author explores Polo's accounts of Asian sexuality; Polo is not a missionary and celebrates Oriental sexual difference with tolerance].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 1 (Spring 1997):  Pages 189 - 229.
Year of Publication: 1997.
2. Record Number: 12678
Author(s): Westrem, Scott D.
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Title : Medieval Western European Views of Sexuality Reflected in the Narratives of Travelers to the Orient [The author briefly surveys four influential travel accounts written in the span of a century. Westrem cites discussion of fornication, adultery, polygamy, and incest. The authors, even the two churchmen, are surprisingly moderate in their attitudes toward these sexual crimes, although they indicate the increasingly serious nature of the offenses. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life.   Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta .   Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 1 (Spring 1997):  Pages 141 - 156. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987
Year of Publication: 1990.