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Sex lives of medieval people

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

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. (Ad) Katherine Harvey is the author of The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages (Reaktion Books, 2021). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-Histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-fires-of-lust%2Fkatherine-harvey%2F9781789144895 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask someone that has sex. Someone that has sex. Right. And remember,

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1:09.9

Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

1:20.8

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. What did our medieval ancestors think about sex? How did the belief that sex was sinful

1:32.4

sit alongside the notion that it was also necessary to balance your bodily humours? And what did they know about

1:39.4

contraception? In her new book, The Fires of Lust, Sex in the Middle Ages,

1:45.4

Catherine Harvey sheds light on the surprisingly familiar sex lives of ordinary medieval people.

1:51.5

She joined us recently to explain more, and putting the questions to Catherine was our digital editor, Eleanor Evans.

1:58.7

Please be aware that this podcast contains some graphic sexual descriptions and discussions

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