The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages by Katherine Harvey

The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

Katherine Harvey

320 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much--or too little--sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong...

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