It Takes All Kinds: Sexuality and Gender Differences in Hildegard of Bingen's ‘Book of Compound Medicine’

Hildegard of Bingen, a twelfth-century religious visionary and head of a convent, wrote extensively and frankly about sex difference and sexual behavior in her general treatise in medicine. Gender differences, sexuality, and reproduction were subjects by no means proscribed in twelfth-century Europe...

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Main Author: Cadden, Joan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1984
In: Traditio
Year: 1984, Volume: 40, Pages: 149-174
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