Desire and Discipline : : Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West /

Desire and Discipline : : Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West / / ed. by Konrad Eisenbichler, Jacqueline Murray.

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The history of sexuality is one of the newest and fastest-growing areas of scholarly and popular interest. This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the twelfth and the early seventeenth centuries - a period that remains relatively unexplored, yet one that has...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Brundage, James A.,
Bullough, Vern L.,
Cady, Joseph,
Elbl, Ivana,
Elliott, Dyan,
Epp, Garrett P.J.,
Goffen, Rona,
Gonzâlez-Casanovas, Roberto J.,
Kazmierczak Manzione, Carol,
Mazo Karras, Ruth,
Murray, Jacqueline,
Partner, Nancy F.,
Poirier, Guy,
Ruth Straus, Barrie,
Shephard, Robert,
Taylor, Andrew,
HerausgeberIn:
Eisenbichler, Konrad,
Murray, Jacqueline ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©1996
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (316 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Sex in History: A Redux
  • Playing by the Rules: Sexual Behaviour and Legal Norms in Medieval Europe
  • Gender Models in Alfonso X's Siete partidas: The Sexual Politics of 'Nature' and 'Society'
  • 'Men without Wives': Sexual Arrangements in the Early Portuguese Expansion in West Africa
  • Sex in Tudor London: Abusing Their Bodies with Each Other
  • Sexual Rumours in English Politics: The Cases of Elizabeth I and James I
  • The 'Masculine Love' of the 'Princes of Sodom' 'Practising the Art of Ganymede' at Henry Ill's Court: The Homosexuality of Henry III and His Mignons in Perre de L'Estoile's Mémoires-Journaux
  • Masculinities and Homosexualities in French Renaissance Accounts of Travel to the Middle East and North Africa
  • Bernardino of Siena versus the Marriage Debt
  • Sex, Money, and Prostitution in Medieval English Culture
  • Wives and Mothers: Adultery, Madness, and Marital Misery in Titian's Paduan Frescoes
  • Freedom through Renunciation? Women's Voices, Women's Bodies, and the Phallic Order
  • Learning to Write with Venus's Pen: Sexual Regulation in Matthew of Vendôme's Ars versificatoria
  • Reading the Dirty Bits
  • Did Mystics Have Sex?
  • Notes on Contributors

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