ANT 3302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Clerical Marriage, John Calvin, Gnosticism
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Church controls mind and soul: gnosticism- body was the prison of the soul, manichaeism- persia flesh was evil and most evil was women. Church regulated intercourse: told when it was allowed, thursdays, fridays, saturday, sundays, mondays, Tuesdays/wednesday before communion: 14 days a year for sex. Gregory vii: ban clerical marriage, principle of clerical celibacy, fathered 65 illegitimate children. Reformation 16th century: martin luther/ john calvin. Procreation remains the goal of sex: anglican church did not approve of contraception until 1960s. Song of songs- dialogue between jesus and the church. St. theresa: natural desire into fantasy of holy union. 12th century minstrels love was divine and obsessive. Devoted to one woman knights act for chosen lady. John xxii 14th century witches could: damage crops, illness and death. Kramer & sprenger: impotence, bareness, sex fantasies, mania. Torture to extract confession in 15th century.
