Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 46045
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): John of Winterthur , ,
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  • Title: The Fruits of Clerical Imagination: A Heretical Orgy
  • Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.  Edited by Eugene Smelyansky.  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 91 - 93.
  • Description: In the Chronicle written by the Franciscan friar John of Winterthur, male Beghard heresy is connected to indiscriminate sexual acts and orgies.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Beguines Heresy Ritual Sexual Deviation Sexuality
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 14
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  • Related Resources: The text is from Johannis Vitoduranus, Chronica, ed. F. Baethgen (Weidmann, 1924) pp. 144-4, 248-49, trans. Eugene Smelyansky.
  • Author's Affiliation: Washington State University [Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow]
  • Conference Info: - , -
  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487506124 (hbk); 9781487524128 (pbk); 9781487533342 (ePub); 9781487533335 (PDF)