Viking Sexuality
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
03/15/24
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The Vikings have a fair claim to being the most overly-eroticised group of people in history. It's fair to say this is somewhat reductive.
What forms did sexuality take in Viking society? How was magic a part of their understandings of sexuality? And what were their attitudes to sexual violence?
Joining Kate today to tell us more is Marianne Hem Eriksen, Associate Professor of Archaeology at Leicester University. Marianne is also leader of Body Politics, a research project which is looking at, amongst other things, sexuality in the Viking Ages.
This episode was edited by Tom Delargy. The producer was Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.
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