Medieval Sexuality: A Casebook - Julian Emperor

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<strong>Sexuality</strong> in Late Lombard Italy 1311112342225672228910111232224567892022212345678930111123435678940111123222Table 1.1 Sexual matters in the History of the LombardsPaul’s attitude HL PrincipalsAbduction Neutral 1.16/1.17 Agelmund/LamissioNeutral 1.27 Alboin/RosamundNeutral 5.8 GrimoaldNeutral 5.14 GrimoaldAdultery Neutral 4.46 GrimoaldNeutral 4.47 GundepergaDisapproves 4.48 RodoaldDisapproves 5.6 Clerics at MonzaNeutral 5.37 CunincpertWoman promotes husband’s Approves 6.26 Ratperga/Pemmoadultery (but fails)Serial monogamy Neutral 1.21 WacchoNeutral 6.50 RomoaldFornication Neutral 2.28 Peredeo + maidDisapproves 2.28 Peredeo + queenGang rape Approves 4.37 Avars/RomildaHomosexuality? [or friendship Neutral 5.36 Alahis/Cunincpertbetween men] Disapproves 6.24 FerdulfSexually forward, Neutral? 2.5 Sophiachallenging women Disapproves 4.37 RomildaWoman murders for Disapproves 2.28 Rosamundsexual motive Disapproves 2.29 RosamundAbstinence Approves 1.19 SeverinusApproves 3.1 HospitiusApproves 6.16 Arnulf of MetzChastity Approves 4.37 Romilda’s daughtersApproves 6.58 LiutprandVirginity Approves 6.58 Peter, Bishop of PaviaImputation of clerical Disapproves 5.38 Alahis/ThomasunchastityMiscellaneous:Women masquerading as men Mocking 1.8 Winnili womenMen masquerading as women Neutral 2.5 Narses the eunuchProstitution/monstrous birth Approves 1.15 LamissioRomance Approves 3.30 Authari/TheodelindaApproves 3.35 Agilulf/TheodelindaFacial mutilation Approves 6.22 Theodorada/AuronaSexual disease Disapproves 2.4 Romans
14 Ross BalzarettiThis chapter is part of Paul’s extended treatment of the rebellion of Alahisagainst King Cunincpert (king of the Lombards between 688 and 700 and dealtwith in Books 5 and 6, written around eighty years after the king’s death). 36According to Paul, Alahis was not only a traitor but also a hater of priests andclergy. Paul relates that Bishop Damian of Pavia sent his deacon Thomas toAlahis to convey his blessing. The rebel Alahis received Thomas with greatrudeness. In Paul’s dramatization of the scene when Alahis asked Thomas if hehad clean undergarments on, the deacon replied that they were freshly laundered.However, Alahis had not meant his question literally but metaphorically: “I donot speak of the breeches but of the things that are inside the breeches.” (Egonon dico de femoralibus, sed de his quae intra femoralia habentur). 37 Thomasthen replied that only God could judge him on this point, not man. Obviously,this story is about good versus evil and it is no surprise that Paul takes the sideof Thomas. But the accusation that Alahis hurled at Thomas is still interesting:his greatest weapon against the clergy, it would seem, was an accusation of sexualimpropriety. Paul still had this in his mind two chapters on (5.40) where he makesAlahis threaten to fill a well “with the testicles of clergy” in revenge for the trickCunincpert has played on him. 38 And earlier in Book 5, Paul had laid into thosein charge of the contemporary church of St John at Monza because, in his view,they were “vile persons . . . unworthy and adulterous.” 39 It is clear that accusationsof clerical sexual immorality had real force for Paul and his contemporaries: thesexual morals of clerics were, in some sense, common property within Lombardsociety, of concern to all. 40Paul’s Attitude to Royal AdulteryPaul certainly seems to have believed that adultery was commonplace within theLombard aristocracy, even though successive kings and their aristocratic advisorshad issued clear laws against it. 41 And yet when Paul had the opportunity tocondemn royal adulterers in the course of his narrative, he did not automaticallydo so. A particularly instructive example is Paul’s treatment of Cunincpert.Paul gives a favorable impression of this king: he was effective in war, foughtoff a major rebellion against his rule (by Alahis), and was the pious founder ofseveral churches: “he was moreover a handsome man and conspicuous in everygood quality and a bold warrior” (HL 6.17). 42 Other sources present a pictureconsistent with this. The so-called Carmen de Synodo Ticinensi, probably writtenby a monk at Bobbio c.698 and which Paul seems not to have known, praises thereligious orthodoxy of Cunincpert, his father Perctarit and grandfather Aripert,and presents him as the man who resolved the long-running Three Chaptersschism in Italy (and Alahis as evil). 43 As these qualities were often attributedgenerically to early medieval kings by historians of the period it is no surprisethat Paul attributes them to Cunincpert. However, Paul does record one anecdotethat appears to be more personal: his adulterous seduction of Theodota, a Roman
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