Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages / by Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasset

Author / Editor
Adamson, Matthew, trans.

Title
Sexuality and Medicine in the Middle Ages / by Danielle Jacquart and Claude Thomasset

Published
Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Physical Description
242 pp.

Description
Traces the history of the search for appropriate terminology for sexual matters and of concepts of physiology; medicine and the art of love in the troubadours, Andreas Capellanus, and "Roman de la Rose"; freedom; guilt; and disease. Mentions Trotula of WBT.
Original French ed., 1985.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.