Sex in the Middle Ages

Medieval Fabliaux and Obscene Literature (1x6)

Air date: Jan 04, 2024

Medieval literature plays a powerful role in shaping modern perceptions of life in the Middle Ages. Turn to what might be the less familiar form of medieval storytelling: the fabliaux, which offered medieval people, as it offers us to today, a bawdy, explicit vision of sex and physicality in the Middle Ages.