Playing by the Rules: Sexual Behaviour and Legal Norm in Medieval Europe

Author / Editor
Brundage, James A.

Title
Playing by the Rules: Sexual Behaviour and Legal Norm in Medieval Europe

Published
Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler, eds. Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West (Toronto; Buffalo, N.Y.; and London: University of Toronto Press, 1996), pp. 23-41.

Description
Cites FrT as evidence that the archdeacon's court and its officers were "bitterly disliked," in turn evidence of the gap between legal norms of sexual behavior and actual practice in medieval Europe.

Alternative Title
Desire and Sexuality in the Premodern West.

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale.