La donna nel Medioevo, impura per antonomasia?
In the Middle Ages, woman often passes for a model of impurity, both physical for her cycle and moral as a daughter of Eve; Leviticus was full of prescriptions on the need to purify the body after the expulsion of bodily flows such as blood, during menstruation and after childbirth, or semen; males...
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Language: | English |
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Firenze University Press
2022-07-01
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Series: | Storia delle Donne |
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Online Access: | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/13458 |