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Hédonistické křesťanství, sexuální morálka a vyjednávání o identitě : Případ Grazidy Lizierové (1320)
| Title in English | Hedonistic Christianity, Sexual Morals and the Negotiation of Identity : The Case of Grazida Lizier (1320) |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Pantheon : religionistický časopis |
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| Field | Philosophy and religion |
| Keywords | Grazida Lizier; sexual morals; hedonism; sexuality; identity; religion; cultural resources; space for agency; inquisition; inquisitional register; Jacques Fournier |
| Description | This article is a case study of sexual morals and identity construction in 14th-century Europe based on the trial records of Grazida Lizier, extant in the register of Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers. Grazida's worldview is Christian but hedonistic, and is not based on the concept of sin but on the concept of pleasure. Sexual intercourse that pleases both partners cannot really displease God; indeed, such intercourse cannot be sinful. I try to show that this view is not a haphazard excuse for Grazida's extramarital relationship with the priest Peter Clergue, but an organic part of her wider system of beliefs. Later, I argue that even if Grazida finally admitted to having taken this view from Peter, it was by no means something alien to, or superficial in her thinking, and I track such a claim back to a unilateral model of interaction where dominant actors are considered to be the producers and subordinate actors the consumers of cultural resources. I question this model, and strive to demonstrate that Grazida was not a mere object of other people's strategies but claimed her own space for agency. |
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