لمن أراد التعرّف على ظاهرة الشذوذ الجنسي في الأديرة النصرانيّة: Boswell, John, Christianity, Social tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ١٩٨٠ وهو كتاب فيه نقل لأشعار ونصوص مترجمة لرهبان وراهبات شاذين جنسياً في بداية العصور الوسطى!!! من الكتب الأخرى أيضاً: o Boswell, John, "Homosexuality and Religious Life: A Historical Approach", in Homosexuality in the Priesthood and the Religious Life, ed. Jeannine Gramick, NY: Crossroad, ١٩٨٩" o Brown, Judith, Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Studies in the History of Sexuality) , New York: Oxford University Press, ١٩٨٦ o Brundage, James A., Law, Sex and Christian Society in Medieval Europe, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, ١٩٨٧ o Bullough, Vern and James Brundage, Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church, Buffalo, New York; Prometheus, ١٩٨٢ o Jordan, Mark, The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (Chicago Series on Sexuality, History and Society) , Chicago; University of Chicago Press, ١٩٩٧ o McGuire, Brian P., Brother and Lover: Aelred of Rievaulx, New York: Crossroad, ١٩٩٤ o Russel, Kenneth C., “Aelred, the Gay Abbot Rievaulx”, Studia Mystica, ٥ (٤) , ١٩٨٢