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‘One Stroak of His Razour’: Tales of Self-Gelding in Early Modern England
This article examines stories of men who gelded themselves in early modern England. These events, it argues, were shaped and partly motivated by a culture in which castration was seen as both degrading and potentially empowering. Religious precedents such as that of Origen of Alexandria framed self-...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7217618/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32419738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky100 |