Inside the Medieval Mind – Sex DVDrip

Professor
Robin Bartlett unearths remarkable evidence of the complex passions of
men and women in the Middle Ages as his series exploring the medieval
psyche continues. Investigating the private lives of these people, he
shows how this extraordinary period shaped them.
In a time when
the Church preached hatred of the flesh and promoted the cult of
virginity, Professor Bartlett quotes some of the questions the
11th-century Church recommended priests to ask their parishioners, such
as: “Have you committed fornication with your step-mother, your
sister-in-law, or your son’s fiance?”

Despite
the rigid doctrine of the Church at this time, it was the medieval
world that gave birth to the modern concept of romantic love.
Twelfth-century troubadours began to sing songs of love to women in
which they were suddenly goddesses to be adored. For the upper classes
at least, the rules of love were reinvented in lengthy treatises, the
heroes and heroines of love celebrated in poems: Lancelot and
Guinevere, and Tristan and Iseult.
Professor Bartlett also delves
into the tragic story of real-life lovers Abelard and Heloise Abelard
the great scholar, Heloise the niece of a canon at the cathedral of
Notre Dame. Their love letters from the 12th century are astonishing in
their frankness, passion and willingness to break conventions.
Sex
investigates the private lives of medieval men and women, looking at
the theories of sexual difference, the realities of male/female
relationships and courtly romance, and the attitudes of the Church and
wider society to marriage, sex and sexual practice, homosexuality,
virginity and the celibate vocation.
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