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The Importance of Chastity in
Title: The Importance of Chastity in
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 3082 | Pages: 13.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
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 …showed first 75 words of 3082 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3082 total…could legally and morally engage in sexual relations. A medieval
married couple’s union was strictly regarded as a chaste bond that was primarily used for the
procreation of legitimate children, but also was used as an outlet for physical attraction and sexual
desire. The virtue of conjugal chastity sustained by both spouses weighed heavier on the woman
for she was judged within medieval society by her gender, her virtue and her husband’s honour.
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