ABSTRACT Medieval attempts to understand nocturnal emissions – involuntary bodily excretions during sleep which were identified as morally ambiguous – became extensive explorations of the unique and problematic features of sleep and the mental state it produced. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, nocturnal pollutions became the object of an intensive scrutiny of sleep as a site of moral concern. Causal explanations often centred on human psychology, in particular the unusual status of the sleeping mind, in an attempt to understand the intricate ways in which mind, body and soul were uniquely bound together in sleep. The mental states before, during and after sleep were understood to interact with one another in complex ways which centred on questions of culpability and its lack. A comparison of medical, natural-philosophical, theological and canon law materials discussing nocturnal pollution reveals a preoccupation with the sleeper’s mind as exceptional, uncontrollable and problematic.

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迷人的思想：十二世纪和十三世纪的夜间污染，想象力和沉睡的心灵

摘要中世纪试图了解夜间排放（睡眠中非自愿的身体排泄在道德上是模棱两可的）的中世纪尝试，成为对睡眠及其产生的精神状态的独特和有问题的特征的广泛探索。在十二世纪和十三世纪期间，夜间污染已成为对道德关注的场所进行严格审查的对象。因果关系的解释通常集中在人类心理学上，尤其是睡眠中的精神的异常状态，试图理解在睡眠中独特地将思想，身体和灵魂结合在一起的复杂方式。人们理解，睡眠前，睡眠中和睡眠后的精神状态会以复杂的方式相互影响，这些方式围绕罪魁祸首及其缺乏这一问题展开。医学，自然哲学，