„Diabolus habitat in eis” Wo der Teufel zu Hause ist: Geschlechtlichkeit im rechtstheologischen Diskurs des ausgehenden Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit.
"Diabolus habitat in eis" Where the Devil is at Home: Gender in the legal theological discourse of the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Times.

Summary/Abstract: The literary genre, which I would like to focus on in the following explanations, has only recently received the attention it deserves in historical science as a fundus for understanding the relationship of pre-modern people to their own and other sexuality. Literary-aesthetically unambitious, the text genre to be treated here is oriented towards normative-juridical orientation and is dedicated to the practical implementation of theological-canonical guidelines. The text witnesses are located in the context of the so-called 'summary literature', which found its most significant expression in the 'summae confessorum'. Contrary to what their name suggests, these ‘Confessor Sums’ were not only concerned with the legal form of the sacrament of penance, but were, as W. Trusen aptly put it, encyclopaedias of spiritual and secular law.

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