Trial by Impotence: Virility and Marriage in Pre-Revolutionary France |
Contents
Introduction Impotence marriage and the Church page | 1 |
The canons of impotence | 12 |
Ambiguous situations | 40 |
Copyright | |
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accidental impotence According accused of impotence aforesaid Ancien Régime Anne Robert annulment appear argument assistant public prosecutor Boucher d'Argis Bouhier Bray canon law Catherine Church cohabitation condemned consummation couple Coursan Court of Paris D'Argenton declared diriment impediments dissolution divorce Duc de Vendôme ecclesiastical court ecclesiastical judge eighteenth century eunuchs evil spell experts fact father favour female forensic François Michel frigidity genitals girl grounds of impotence hermaphrodite High Court holy hymen impo impotence trials inspection institution intromission Jean Jérôme Bignon jurists Langey lawyer lodged Madame Magdeleine maid Maître Begon Marie marital Marquis de Gesvres marriage married Mascranni matter medical examination midwives modesty Moreover nature partners Peleus physicians procedures proof of erection Quellenec request rule sacrament Sébastien Roulliard septima manus seventeenth century sexual shameful sixteenth century surgeons tence testicles theologians trial by congress Venette verdict Vincent Tagereau virginity virility wedding wife woman women wrote