The Importance of Chastity in
“Women, through whom death, suffering and toil came into the world, were creatures’ dominated by their sex. So taught the Bible and patristic tradition. To control and punish women, particularly their bodies and their dangerous, disruptive sexuality was therefore man’s work”(Klapische-Zuber 13). Sexual morality exemplified in the theological literature of the twelfth through fifteenth centuries and the canon laws that predominated order in medieval life radically affected marital behaviour and the sexual relationship’s women had with their spouses. Marital sexual conduct based on the patristic beliefs of Christianity during the High and Late Middle Ages subjugated women to repress sexual desire other then for procreation and bequeath their chastity to their husbands. This essay will first focus on the basic philosophy of Christian Theology and the ethical laws that were established by the Church to instruct and control sexual conduct in marriage. Secondly, this essay will concentrate on the specific virtue of conjugal chastity and it’s importance in the continuity of the medieval family and European culture. The oppressive discipline that was required of medieval women who suffered as a
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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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