Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.
Summary
In this work of historical detection, medievalist Jordan explores the invention of sodomy by medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. This book is for everyone involved in the ongoing debate within organized religions, and society in general, over moral judgments of same-sex eroticism.--From publisher description.
Contents
A prelude after Nietzsche : the responsibilities of a history of sodomy -- The passions of St. Pelagius -- The discovery of sodomy -- Peter Damian : books in Gomorrah -- Alan of Lille : natural artifices -- The care of sodomites -- Albert the Great : the sodomitic physiology -- Thomas Aquinas : the sin against nature -- A postlude after St. Ambrose : the responsibilities of a theology of sodomy.