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Record Number:
2291
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Rider , Catherine.
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Title:
Between Theology and Popular Practice: Medieval Canonists on Magic and Impotence [The author argues that canon lawyers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries created a set of rules to deal with impotence. Their writings indicate that they knew about lay magical practices. Some canonists urged those who were bewitched to seek magical cures. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Boundaries of the Law: Geography, Gender, and Jurisdiction in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Anthony Musson. Ashgate, 2005. Pages 53 - 66.
Description:
Article Type:
Essay
Subject
(See Also)
:
Canon Law
Impotence
Magic
Medicine
Sexuality
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
General
Century:
12-13
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Catherine Rider seeks to understand how the church's leading canonists, preoccupied in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries with creating a comprehensive law of marriage, dealt with the problem of impotence caused by magic. "They did not," she aptly remin
Author's Affiliation:
Christ's College, University of Cambridge [Research Fellow]
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
2005.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
0754650901