Lo spazio giuridico delle minoranze sessuali nel Medioevo. Gli Ermafroditi.

Medieval jurists dealt with hermaphroditism because both the Corpus Iuris Civilis and Gratian’s Decretum referred to it. Th ey did not consider being hermaphroditic to be a sin or a crime (such as sodomy), as long as heterosexuality was strictly observed. However, the defi nition of a “predominant sex” or the defi nitive choice of a sex was required. Th e legal restrictions on hermaphrodites were the same as for women and depended only on the recognition of their female part. The paper also deals with Foucault’s hypothesis of the medieval perception of the hermaphrodite as a monster.