ACTA Volume #14

Helen Rodnite Lemay is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York at Stony Brook.

• Introduction1. Medical Explanations of Sexual Behavior in the Middle AgesDanielle Jacquart, C.N. de la R.S., Paris2. Sexology and the MedievalistVern Bullough, State University College at Buffalo3. Rules and Regulation: Monasticism and ChastityAaron W. Godfrey, SUNY at Stony Brook4. Exemplary Biblical Couples and the Sacrament of MarriageAllison Coudert, Arizona State University5. Clerics, Their Wives, and Their Concubines in the "Partidas" of Alfonso El SabioReginetta Haboucha, Lehman College of the City University of New York6. Chaucer’s "Marriage Group" Revisited: the Wife of Bath and Merchant in DebateJoan G. Haahr, Yeshiva College7. A Defense of the Senses in Lorenzo Valla’s Theory of PleasureMaristella Lorch, Barnard College and Columbia University8. Sexuality in the Danish Medieval Wall-PaintingJames Mills, Glen Head, New York9. Medieval Western European Views of Sexuality Reflected in the Narratives of Travelers to the OrientScott D. Westerem, Lehman College of The City University10. Science and Discipline: The Ethos of Sex Education in a Fourteenth-Century ClassroomMichael Johnson, State University College at Buffalo