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30 - History
University of Durham
Engendrer le tabou. L’interprétation du lévitique 15, 18-19 et 20-18 et de la menstruation sous l’ancien régime.
This article criticises the traditional representation of early-modern elite male attitudes towards menstruation as misogynist, arguing for a fuller and more subtle analysis. It develops the heuristic application of ‘taboo’ to the analysis of one of the key sources of elite religious attitudes to menstruation: Leviticus 15, 18:19 and 20:18. It compares linguistic changes in the expression of menstrual taboos found in Leviticus in 35 Catholic and Protestant Bibles published from 1530 to 1768 and in 22 contemporary dictionaries, refuting the idea that their translators were misogynistic.