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
considered homicide of a child. was portrayed as the sin of fornication which no doubt caused considerable guilt and anguish for affection and love both a wife and husband share, notwithstanding the emotional existence in the chastity which constituted the legitimacy of marital sex while imposing constraints on its fifteen centuries after Jesus's death interpreted the doctrines of the Bible and wrote theological greatly changed the conceptual framework for the treatment of most sexual topics. Aristotle's
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