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Sex lives of medieval people

Katherine Harvey discusses whether attitudes to sex in the Middle Ages were really so different from our own

Published: December 6, 2021 at 12:16 PM

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Were medieval attitudes to sex really that different from our own? Historian Katherine Harvey speaks to Elinor Evans about the sex lives of ordinary people in the Middle Ages – from how sexuality was governed by ideas about sin, to the “love magic” that was thought to trick people into bed.

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Katherine Harvey is the author of The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages (Reaktion Books, 2021)

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Elinor EvansHead of digital (web and video)

Elinor Evans is head of digital (web and video)

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