Marriage, Sex, And Motherhood Flashcards
(45 cards)
Women took the statuses of…
Their husbands, like a personality transfer
Women were trained for marriage, especially if…
It was to someone of a higher status. Training started at a younger age for queens and empresses.
An example of a marriage training guide is the 14th century…
Parisian “Book of the Good Man of Paris” which included recipes and etiquette guides
Married women had no legal…
Status or existence of her own
Women were considered the property of…
Their husbands
If a husband travelled for work, his wife…
Legally ‘was’ him in terms of running business and paying taxes
In 1215 marital banns legally had to be public, as introduced by…
Pope Innocent III at the Lateran Council
Public marital banns were introduced to stop…
Clandestine marriages and multiple proposals
The primary purpose of marriage was…
Having children
Time and age of marriage was class-based; royal and aristocratic girls…
Usually got married earlier for political reasons, the less privileged classes usually didn’t get married until their twenties
Despite its theological legitimacy, many writers held that…
Marriage was second best to clerical celibacy or that it curtailed men’s liberties
Perpetual virginity was the…
Ideal
Ecclesiasticals considered sex to be a necessary but…
Undesirable way of maintaining the species
Marriage was the only licit and proper outlet for…
Sex as it was performed for the reason of procreation
Married couples were technically restricted as to when they could…
Actually even fuck
Ecclesiastical regulations took the liturgical calendar into consideration as…
A sex diary
Sex was not allowed on…
Wednesdays, Fridays, advent, lent, or any other religious holiday
Gratian’s Decretum said it was the choice of…
The couple as to whether they did the do on holy days
Sex was discouraged when a woman was…
Menstruating, pregnant, or breastfeeding/nursing
Male clerical elites denounced creativity in the bedchamber, the prescribed…
The missionary position and denounced all others
The poet Robert de Blois acknowledged that women enjoyed sex in his poem…
The Ladies’ Instruction, where describes breasts as an erogenous zone
It was acknowledged that widows felt sexual desire in…
Thirteenth century medical texts, which offered a remedy of stuffing musk-soaked cotton up the vag
Birth control was not unknown. Some common methods were…
- coitus imterruptus
- weasel bollocks in a velvet bag between the breasts
Motherhood differed between serfs, free peasants, aristocracy, and royalty. All had…
Complicated family structures
