Thesis (M.A.B.C.)--Master's College, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-100).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Montana, 2008. / Title from title screen. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 18, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-170).

Thesis (DPhil (Social Work))--University of Pretoria, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (J.C.D.)--Catholic University of America, 1931. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 95-98.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Calvin Theological Seminary, 1995. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [102]-106).

Thesis (M.A.B.C.)--Master's College, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-100).

This thesis examines literary images of masculinity and femininity, their function and depiction in marriage roles and homo-social relationships in the context of crisis: wifely adultery. The study is heavily reliant upon vernacular texts, especially Old French works from the twelfth and thirteenth century including works from the genres of romance, lais, fables, and fabliaux. Latin works including historia and prescriptive texts such as customaries, penitentials, etiquette texts and medical and canon law treatises are also used to contextualise themes in the Old French literature. The introduction summarises modern literary and historical criticism concerning sexuality in the Middle Ages. It then discusses the influences of the Church, philosophy, medicine, natural theory and society on medieval definitions of sexuality to contextualise the literature which is focal to this thesis. The following four chapters each consider a single character in the adulterous affair: the adulteress, the husband, the lover and the accuser. The literary images of each character are analysed in detail revealing the diversity of depictions between and also within genres. This enables the identification of medieval sexual constructs, challenging some previous critiques of representations of sexuality in the Middle Ages. The final chapter explores the language by which the sexual act is presented. Furthermore, it shows how language is used and occasionally abused in committing, prosecuting and evading punishment for adultery and how it can be wielded as a weapon of women. Through the focus of a body of literature rich in depictions of sexuality, this thesis questions the misogynist overtones often attributed to medieval literature. The diversity of images shows that the literature illustrates a wide range of opinions and ideas reflective of the complexity of sexuality in medieval society.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The general aim of this paper is to analyze how Adultery has been felt, researched and lived in the contemporaneity. To do so, 3 studies were held. The study number 1 identified how this behavior has been investigated across the country by the national scientific communities by the use of a integrative review of literature. It was clear this subject is poorly investigated nationally, scientific journals report mostly about causes, repercussions and phenomena related to questions of the infidelity in the contemporaneity. The study number 2 analyzed quantitatively how the adultery has been realized and felt in the modern relationships; an online sociodemographic survey, scales and inventories were applied. The study also reported about proximity and distance between genders through infidelity experiences from main social constructs related to sexual satisfaction of married people. Important subjects linked to the adultery were reported, mainly the ones related to conjugality, sexuality, beliefs and thoughts about infidelity, marriage and the modernity itself which creates the possibility of having sex easily. The study number 3 reported about subjects related to adultery and the involved partners in such situation, plus the way which the infidelity is seen and felt in their relationships. Six people were interviewed and from their narratives it is possible to verify that setting up causes and predictors is a very dangerous path, which can reduce the multiplicity of involved factors. Beyond that it is relevant to discuss the satisfaction in the social environment and the way that relationships are made nowadays in the contemporaneity and its multiplicity of information, stimuli and new ways of relationships through the internet. / O objetivo geral deste trabalho foi realizar uma análise sobre como a infidelidade conjugal tem sido percebida, pesquisada e vivenciada no contexto contemporâneo. Para isso foram realizados três estudos. O Estudo 1 identificou de que forma o fenômeno vem sendo investigado no cenário científico nacional a partir de uma revisão integrativa da literatura. Percebeu-se que a temática é pouco investigada, as publicações analisadas versam mais sobre causas, repercussões e fenômenos atrelados, principalmente as questões emergentes do cenário contemporâneo. O Estudo 2 analisou quantitativamente como a infidelidade conjugal tem sido percebida e vivenciada nas relações contemporâneas, de forma online, por meio de questionário sociodemográfico, escalas e um inventário. O debate analisou também as proximidades e distanciamentos na questão dos gêneros em relação à prática, através das experiências infiéis e dos principais construtos relacionados à satisfação sexual e conjugal dos participantes. Questões importantes ligadas ao fenômeno da infidelidade foram observadas, com destaque para as questões atreladas à conjugalidade, aspectos ligados à satisfação sexual e conjugal, crenças prévias e pensamentos sobre o fenômeno e suas práticas, além da própria modernidade, seus reflexos nos relacionamentos e a questão do sexo facilitado. O Estudo 3 considerou as questões dos aspectos vivenciais atrelados ao fenômeno, na forma como se dão as crenças sobre a infidelidade, bem como a percepção e a vivência de sujeitos que viveram a infidelidade em seus relacionamentos. Foram 6 entrevistados e a partir de seus relatos foi possível perceber que o estabelecimento de causas e preditores é um caminho muito perigoso, diminuto, que acaba por reduzir a multiplicidade de questões e fatores envolvidos. Além disso, alguns pontos apresentaram-se bastante relevantes na discussão, como é o caso da satisfação, do contexto social e da forma como se dão as relações hoje, o mundo contemporâneo em sua multiplicidade de informações, estímulos e novas formas de se relacionar mediadas muitas vezes pelo meio virtual, que devem ser consideradas. / São Cristóvão, SE

Bibliography: pages 134-152. / In the modern western world, infidelity or deviation from the monogamous sexually constrained 'till death do us part' marriage is often judged as unhappy, deviant or placing the marriage on the verge of divorce. Marriage areas for is a highly complex relationship, with multiple potential conflict. Contemporary marriage falls prey to dissatisfaction aAd stress far more than marriages of years gone by, where roles were traditionally more clearly defined and expectations were unchallenged. This paper serves to focus on the institution of marriage in western society and the changing face of marriage in contemporary society. Today there by married are many problems and difficulties experienced couples and not least of all, that of the extramarital affair. Treatment for the problem of infidelity proves an increasing challenge for clincians today. Methods and difficulties in this regard will be discussed. Five case studies from the writer's private practice case load will be presented to augment the preceding theoretical discussion. In describing the nature of the cases, highlights will be made of the salient variations in circumstances, treatment and outcome.