My final post on this summer's IHR Earlier Medieval seminars (though it wasn't actually the final paper of the term) is about Lucy Grig's paper on "In … more
Posts tagged with:
morality
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The body's grace 1: risky sex and the decline of romance
@ 2011-01-27 – 07:19:47
You can't study the history of sexual morality without realising that Christian churches are doing a really bad job today at explaining and justifying … more -
Backwards thinking
@ 2011-01-06 – 21:43:00
In the last couple of weeks I have been trying to disentangle Hincmar of Rheims' arguments in his text on Lothar II's divorce, contemplating morality, … more -
Outcomes of stigmatising unmarried mothers
@ 2009-02-21 – 08:28:04
[ ... ] about the morality in stigmatising unmarried mothers (and note how it ends up sex-specific again). Also, as has been pointed out, it’s not easy ... more -
Euthanasia and the slippery slope
@ 2008-12-13 – 08:20:24
I didn’t watch the recent controversial TV programme in which a man with motor neurone disease was filmed as he committed suicide. I haven’t got Sky … more -
An evangelical in the eighties: religion and politics
@ 2008-12-05 – 07:42:31
[ ... ] again that morality isn’t mainly about sexual behaviour and that seeking political concessions for Christians is a poor tactic. I’m probably ... more -
Five year olds and gay marriage
@ 2008-11-22 – 08:40:04
I’m not sure at what age I would have told L about gay marriage, but I had not planned to when she was only five. A month or so ago, however, the decision … more -
Sarah Palin and Theutberga
@ 2008-09-04 – 12:02:47
[ ... ] and political morality. Politicians with lurid private lives (from Lloyd George and Winston Churchill to JFK and Bill Clinton) have nevertheless ... more -
School choice and morality
@ 2008-04-04 – 09:48:05
Choosing the education for your child is obviously a pedagogic matter and also sometimes an economic one. But it's also often a moral matter, as well, … more -
The history of morals and moral history
@ 2008-02-25 – 23:32:18
[ ... ] a historian of morality) is ‘No’. My longer answer starts from the assumption that we’re talking here about the times we’re ... more
