Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Pollution, Illusion, and Masculine Disarray: Nocturnal Emissions and the Sexuality of the Clergy -- 2. From Sexual Fantasy to Demonic Defloration: The Libidinous Female in the Later Middle Ages -- 3. Sex in Holy Places: An Exploration of a Medieval Anxiety -- 4. The Priest's Wife: Female Erasure and the Gregorian Reform -- 5. Avatars of the Priest's Wife: The Return of the Repressed -- 6. On Angelic Disembodiment and the Incredible Purity of Demons -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.