Illustrations
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1. “Lovers and Devil’s Imp.” Woodcut from Der Seelentrost, Augsburg,
1478.
2. The influence of Venus. Fifteenth-century woodcut.
3. Medieval bath houses.
Illumination from Old French Romand'Alexandre.
4. Love in a tub. Woodcut from an Augsburg calendar, ca. 1480.
5. Marrying a prostitute. Fourteenth-century illumination of Gratians
Decretum. Causa 32.
6. The Arnolfini marriage, Jan Van Eyck.
7. Presumption of death case. Fourteenth-century illumination of Gratians
Decretum. Causa 34.
8. King David with concubines. Fourteenth-century illumination.
9. A cleric, his concubine, and their child. Fourteenth-century illumina
tion of Jacobus Anglicus s encyclopedia Omne Bonum.
10. Child of doubtful parentage. Illumination of Gratian’s Decretum.
Causa 31.
11. Child of doubtful parentage. Illumination of Gratian’s Decretum.
Causa 31.
12. Disapproving father. Fourteenth-century illumination of Gratians
Decretum.
13. Dissolution of a marriage because of impotence. Thirteenth-century
illumination of Gratians Decretum.
14. Examination for impotence.
15. Song of Songs: Jesus as lover embracing his spouse.
16. “The Allegory of the Power of Love,” Cristofano Robetta.
17. “Priapus and Lotis.” Late fifteenth-century engraving.
18. “Tree of Bigamy.” Woodcut from Hostiensiss Summa aurea (Lyon,
1537)∙
19. David and Bathsheba. Early fourteenth-century illumination from
Queen Mary’s Psalter.
20. Scene at a mill. Fourteenth-century “Smithfield Decretals.”