Sex and Sin in the Middle Ages

MDST2613

Medieval writers produced texts concerned with the definition, experience, regulation, and even celebration of sex, the body, and gender. This unit introduces students to the ways that concepts of sexual intercourse, sexual identity, gender, and the body were depicted and regulated in medieval texts from the tenth to fifteenth centuries. Students will read in English translation AngloSaxon, Old French, Germanic, and Medieval Latin texts that illustrate the complexity of views of sex in the medieval world.

Unit of study details

Unit of study level: Senior

Credit points: 6

Commencing semesters: 1

Further unit of study information

Unit of study handbook: MDST2613

Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships

Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates

Available for study abroad and exchange: No

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