Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray: Nocturnal Emissions and the Sexuality of the Clergy 14
7. 2. From Sexual Fantasy to Demonic Defloration: The Libidinous Female in the Later Middle Ages 35
8. 3. Sex in Holy Places: An Exploration of a Medieval Anxiety 61
9. 4. The Priest's Wife: Female Erasure and the Gregorian Reform 81
10. 5. Avatars of the Priest's Wife: The Return of the Repressed 107
11. 6. On Angelic Disembodiment and the Incredible Purity of Demons 127
12. Afterword 157
13. Notes 165
14. Bibliography 267
15. Index 289