Table of Contents

Editors’ Introduction

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Early Medieval Histories

1. Ross Balzaretti "Sexuality in late Lombard Italy, c.700-800 AD"2. Dominic Janes "Dangerous deeds and polluting texts: the moral readings and modern reception of the insular penitentials"Saintly Sexualities

3. Joyce E. Salisbury "When Sex Stopped Being a Social Disease: Sex and the Desert Fathers and Mothers"4. Samantha J.E. Riches "Virtue and violence: saints, monsters and sexuality in medieval culture"

Consuming Passions5. April Harper "The food of love: illicit feasting, food imagery and adultery in Old French Literature" 6. A. Lynn Martin "The Role of Drinking in the Male Construction of Unruly Women"

7. Caroline Proctor "Between Medicine and Morals: sex in the regimens of Maino de Maineri" Real and Imaginary Kingdoms

8. David Santiuste " ‘Puttyng downe and rebuking of Vices’: Richard III and the Proclamation for the Reform of Morals"

9. Philip Crispin "Scandal, Malice and the Kingdom of the Bazoche"

To the East

10. Hugh Kennedy "Al-Jahiz and the Construction of Homosexuality at the Abbasid Court"

11. Kim M. Phillips " ‘They do not know the use of men’: The Absence of Sodomy in Medieval Accounts of the Far East"

About the Author

April Harper is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Oneonta. Caroline Proctor is a Teaching Fellow and Research Assistant in the Centre for the History of Medicine, the Department of History, University of Warwick.