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Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Larissa Tracy (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013). xiii + 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-84384-351-1. £60.00. A wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of essays addressing the archaeological, historical, religious, legal-historical, and literary evidence for castration in the late classical and medieval periods, with the concluding essay taking the concept forward into the early modern period. There is an introduction by the editor, followed by fourteen essays. These are:...