Castration and culture in the Middle Ages

TRACY Larissa Castration and culture in the Middle Ages Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2013, XIII-351 p. ISBN 978-1-84384-351-1 HMA 385 Résumé éditeur : Castration and castrati have always been facets of western culture, from myth and legend to law and theology, from eunuchs guarding harems to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century castrati singers. Metaphoric castration pervades a number of medieval literary genres, particularly the Old French fabliaux - exchanges of power predicated upon the ex..