Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World

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Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern
World

• According to the author, does Jesus play an
  important role in evolution of Christian ideas
  regarding sexuality?
• How does Wiesner-Hanks critique the traditional
  role attributed to St. Pauls influence in
  shaping sexual norms in Christian thought?
• How did Hebrew Scripture influence Christian
  ideas? What about actual Jewish sexual practices?
• How did Romans legislate sexuality? (26)
• Why was heroic virginity seen as a problem by
  early church leaders? (29-30)
• What are key components of Augustines thoughts?
  (31-32)

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1. What are the institutions which appeared in the
   Early Middle Ages that would have an important
   regulatory effect on Christian sexuality? (35-37)
2. For Wiesner-Hanks, what are some of the impacts
   of Peter Damien in the high Middle Ages? (38-39)
3. In the Reform Era of the High Middle Ages, what
   are some if the key institutions, contexts, and
   intellectual movements that concerned the Church
   with issues of sexuality? (40-44)
4. How might spiritual virginity be a strategy to
   control ones own sexuality? (45)

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1. Why were prostitutes important to forging public
   policy in 14th and 15th century Europe? (46) Was
   there a shift in who created the policies and
   regulations?
2. How did the Orthodox Church of the Byzantine
   Empire differ from the Roman Catholic Church?
   (48-52)