Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 17855
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Davies , Anthony.
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  • Title: The Sexual Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons [The author surveys sexual practices and beliefs among the Anglso-Saxons before and after the advent of Christianity. Davies argues that the clergy taught people to have a reverence for virginity and a sense of sexual guilt. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck.  Edited by Juliette Dor.  English Department, University of Liège, 1992.  Pages 80 - 102.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Conversion, Religious Penitential Books Sexuality Theordore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury- Penitentiale Theodor
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 6-7
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 2872330046