By S. Ravi Rajan
ISBN-10: 0199277966
ISBN-13: 9780199277964
ISBN-10: 0199282226
ISBN-13: 9780199282227
ISBN-10: 1429421878
ISBN-13: 9781429421874
Magic and Impotence within the center Ages investigates the typical medieval trust that magic may cause impotence, focusing fairly at the interval 1150-1450. the topic hasn't ever been studied intimately ahead of, yet there's a strangely great amount of knowledge approximately it in 4 sorts of resource: confessors' manuals; scientific compendia that mentioned many health problems; commentaries on canon legislation; and theological commentaries at the Sentences of Peter Lombard. even supposing so much historians of medieval tradition specialize in just one or of those sorts of resource, a broader comparability unearths that medieval writers held unusually different reviews approximately what magic was once, the way it labored, and no matter if it used to be ever valid to take advantage of it. Medieval discussions of magically brought on impotence additionally comprise loads of information regarding magical practices, such a lot of that have no longer been studied earlier than. particularly, those assets say greatly approximately well known magic, a subject matter which has been quite ignored by means of historians as the facts is scanty and tough to interpret. Magic and Impotence makes new information regarding renowned magic on hand for the 1st time. Magic and Impotence additionally examines why the authors of felony, scientific, and theological texts have been so attracted to renowned magical practices in relation to impotence. It for this reason makes use of magically prompted impotence as a case-study to discover the connection among elite and pop culture. particularly, this research emphasizes the significance of the thirteenth-century pastoral reform circulate, which sought to implement extra orthodox non secular practices. Historians have frequently famous that this circulate introduced churchmen into touch with well known ideals, yet this is often the 1st examine to illustrate the profound impact it had on theological and felony principles approximately magic.
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Their attitude to them often seems ambivalent. For example, two writers who discussed the medical properties of natural substances in the first century ad, Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides, mentioned substances that could cause or cure impotence just by being close to a person. However, Dioscorides, who compiled an encyclopaedia of medicinal substances in the first century ad, often distanced himself from these recipes by introducing them with the words ‘They say,’³¹ and Pliny attributed his recipes to the ‘Magi’, whom he criticized elsewhere in his work for offering disgusting and ‘magical’ cures.
We should thus be wary of taking the explosion of sources in the later Middle Ages as a sign that impotence magic was happening on a larger scale than before. However, the ancient sources also hint at a pattern that continued into the Middle Ages: that learned writers about magic and impotence took 28 Impotence Magic in the Ancient World some of their information from popular culture rather than from written sources. Marcellus Empiricus claimed to be recording cures recommended by ‘rustics’ as well as by medical texts, and although it is difficult to tell how far elite writers like Ovid and Petronius can tell us about non-elite culture, Petronius’ scathing characterization of the impoverished old ladies who offered cures for impotence may have some truth in it.
Peter Brown, The Body and Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988), 417; Michael Müller, Die Lehre des Hl. Augustinus von der Paradiesesehe und ihre Auswirkung in der Sexualethik des 12. und 13. Jahrhunders bis Thomas von Aquin (Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet, 1954), 22–4. Quote from Kate Cooper and Conrad Leyser, ‘The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude and Manliness in the Fifth-Century West’, Gender and History 12 (2000), 541. ²⁵ Brown, Body, 406. Impotence Magic in the Ancient World 21 suggest that magic could cause impotence, even though he wrote in detail about both magic and marriage.
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