Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Abbreviations XI
5. Plates XV
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One Problems and Definitions
8. Chapter One. Naming Sodomy 13
9. Chapter Two. Gender and Power 47
10. Chapter Three. Terms of Endearment 99
11. Chapter Four. The Sexual Subject 132
12. Part Two Peter Damian
13. Chapter Five. Peter Damian’s Letter 31 and Eleventh-Century Reform 203
14. Chapter Six. Sodomy in Damian’s Letter 31 263
15. Chapter Seven. Nature and Sins Against Nature in Damian’s Letter 31 290
16. Chapter Eight. Luxuria, the Devil’s Work 329
17. Chapter Nine. ‘The Devil, You Say’: Lust, Free Will, and Effeminacy in Damian’s Letter 31 387
18. Afterword 420
19. Bibliography 425
20. Index 504