By Tony Woodman, David West
Initially released in 1974, those reports of Latin poetry have been commissioned with major reasons in brain: to motivate a clean studying of a number of Latin poets from the time of Catullus to Horace, and to demonstrate a number of, serious ways to literature. because the literary learn of Latin built in colleges and universities there has been a proliferation of severe innovations, which have been greeted with bewilderment by way of a few, with hostility by means of others. This publication doesn't try to adjudicate eventually among them. There should be nobody 'prescription' for analyzing poetry; yet this doesn't suggest that there are not any legitimate criteria of judgement. feedback has to be versatile, inventive and sympathetic, however it should also be rigourous. To counteract emotions of disorientation the editors attempted to supply samples of the simplest serious paintings in development on the time of book.
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The male body was the uncorrupted base text, as it were; the female, an imperfect copy. ”25 By quoting Galen, I do not mean to imply that his theory of sex “difference” was the only one available in antiquity and the Middle Ages, but to acknowledge that it certainly was an influential one. 26 However, I would like to stress the power and pervasiveness of the rhetoric of analogy that underpins not only Galen’s conception of the human body but also Aristotle’s notion of the superior, perfected man and inferior, flawed woman.
116 It is not clear if the blood here refers to hymeneal blood, or to the blood that may result from a violent attack. The other signs—the hue and cry, the torn garments—point to evidence of resistance on the virgin’s part, not necessarily to virginity. However, in De Legibus, physical examination is called for when it must be determined if a woman is pregnant or not. 117 On the other hand, ecclesiastical law on marriage and divorce sometimes called for verifying virginity in a way that most likely depended on a physical examination.
46 Heterosexual intercourse was the most efficacious cure in either case, but fumigation, the application of ointments, or even massage was also prescribed, especially for virgins and widows, for whom intercourse was theoretically not an option. In a fifteenth-century English text, the author makes a distinction between suffocation caused by the retention of menses and that caused by the retention of seed. In the latter instance, he advises that: it is profitable to haue company with man. But þus vunderstonde: in lawefull company, as with her housebandes and with none other; for in certayn it were better for a man other for a woman to haue þe grettest sekenesse of þe body the whiles þei leven than to ben helyd thorough a dede of lechery other ony other dede ayenst goddis hestys.