Index
Abelard, 5, 110 Abjection, 2, 7 Abraham, 42, 44–47, 51, 55, 59 Adultery, 10–15, 17–18, 83 AethelXaed, 33 Ailill, 24–26 Albert the Great, 77–78 Alfonso el Sabio, Siete Partidas, 71 Allegory, 19–20 Amazons, 24, 33 Amenorrhea, 4, 22–23, 31–32 Amfortas, 106–8 Amicus and Amelius, 42, 47, 60 Ami et Amile, 47–51, 54, 56, 58 Amis e Amilun, 50 Anfortas, 99–100 Ansëys de Mes, 28–29 Antisemitism, ix, 71, 102 Apollonius of Tyre, 57 Archeology, 27 Aristotle, 4, 56 Aronstein, Susan, 105 Arthur, King, 19, 96 Bademagu, King, 11–12 Beatrice, 15–17 Bede, 67 Belissant, 47–48, 50 Belle Hélène de Constantinople, 66 Bernardino of Siena, 71 Béroul, Roman de Tristan, 11 Bettelheim, Bruno, 8 Beves of Hampton, 86–89 Biale, David, 61 Bloch, R. Howard, 115 Blood: in battles, 10, 13, 20, 21–23; on bed sheets, 10–17; control of, 4, 7–8, 57–60, 102, 104; as evidence, 10–17, 77, 89–91; Xux, 101–4, 108; from anus, 103; from genitals, 100, 101–2, 109; of Jewish men, xi, 6–7, 102–4, 108; in Judaism, 6–7, 61–62; and illness, 101–2, 104, 106, 108; in medical cures, ix, 3, 5, 9; and the sea, 57–58; virgin’s, 2–5, 18. See also Menstruation; Parturition Bloodletting, 7–8. See also Phlebotomy Book of Leinster, 24 Bors, 9, 105 Bourke, Joanna, 39 Brown, Peter, 4 Brundage, James, 74 Bynum, Caroline Walker, 4, 107 Camille, 28 Castration, 92, 98, 106 Chastity, 97–98, 99 Chaucer, GeoVrey: Clerk’s Tale, 51; Man of Law’s Tale, 59, 64, 73–75, 78, 82; Physician’s Tale, 44 Chevalier du cygne, 83 Chrétien de Troyes: Chevalier de la charrete, 10–15; Conte du graal, 92, 100, 104; Guillaume d’Angleterre, 85–86, 88, 89; Philomena, 41, 51–56, 58, 59–60 Christine de Pizan: Book of the City of Ladies, 41; Mutacion de Fortune, 41 Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson, 62–63 Circumcision, 6–7 Chester Abraham, 44 Churching, 67–69, 70, 88 Conception, ix, x, 63–64, 77–78, 82–83, 97; of Christ, 3. See also Monstrous birth Index Control. See Blood, control of Constance, 73–75 Conversion, 73–74, 86, 100, 102, 105 Cooper, Alice, 1–2, 18 Cressy, David, 68 Cross-dressing, 29–30, 36 Curse of Eve, ix, 1, 110 Deborah, 33 Delaney, Carol, 45, 47, 55 DeVries, Kelly, 24–25 Dinshaw, Carolyn, 75 Donygild, 73–75, 78 Douglas, Mary, 5 Edda, 41 Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, xi Elliott, Dyan, 68, 105, 106 Elucidation, 100 Erembourc, 56–57, 58, 60 Estoire del saint graal, 94–109 Eucharist, ix, x, 3, 92–96, 104 Fairy, 74, 75, 79–85 Fergus, 24–25 Fisher King, 99 Florence, 15–17, 20 Fountain, 18, 80 Freud, Sigmund, 13 G.I. Jane, 22–23, 30 Gaignebet, Claude, 83 Galahad, 9 Galen, 56, 111 Gauvain, 18–20, 93–94 Gervaise of Tilbury Gésine, 58, 65, 67–72, 80, 101 Gibson, Gail, 68, 85 Gobert Thibaut, 34 Grail, x, 92–100 Gregory the Great, 3, 67–68 Grimhild, 41 Griselda, 51, 59–60 Gudrun, 41 Guenevere, 10–15, 16, 17–18, 20, 113 Gurguran, King, 19 Hagiography. See Vitae Hanser-Schäublin, Brigitta, 77 Hardré, 47–48 Helinas, 80–81, 84 Heloise, 5 Hemorrhoids, 103–4 Heroism, x, 17, 21–23, 23, 30, 110 Heterosexuality, 23 Hildegard of Bingen, 3, 5, 78 HoVman, Lawrence, 6–8 Howard, Jean, 36 Humors, ix, 111 Huon de Bordeaux, Yde et Olive, 29–30 Impurity. See Pollution Incest, 65, 66 Infanticide, 40, 43, 54–55 Initiation rites, 8 Instinct, maternal, 39–40 Interdiction: of childbirth scene, 84–89; by fairies, 79–84; of intermarriage, 74 Intermarriage, 74–76 Isaac, 44–47 Itys, 41, 53–56 James of Milan, Stimulus Amoris, 107 Jay, Nancy, 42 Jean d’Arras, Roman de Mélusine, 79–85, 88 Jean d’Aulon, 31, 37, 39 Jean Maillart, Roman du comte d’Anjou , 64–67, 73, 75–76, 78 Jephthah, 42, 44 Joan of Arc, 30, 31–39; as mother, 38; as witch, 38 Jones, Catherine, 28 Joseph, 96–97 Josephus, 97–99, 100, 104, 106, 108 Jourdain de Blaye, 56–58, 60, 70 Katarina of Sweden, 71–72 174 Index Kay, 11, 18, 113 Kriemhild, 41 Kundry, 106 Lactation, 4, 63, 71–72 Lancelot, 10–15, 18, 113 Leprosy, 2–3, 8, 48–51, 63–64 Lesbian, 23 Lincoln, Bruce, 43 Lineage, ix...
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