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Paperback The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages Book

ISBN: 1789146569

ISBN13: 9781789146561

The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

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An illuminating exploration of the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people.

The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much--or too little--sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about...

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