Framing Premodern Desires : : Sexual Ideas, Attitudes, and Practices in Europe / / ed. by Marjo Kaartinen, Tom Linkinen, Satu Lidman, Meri Heinonen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• MitwirkendeR: Clementsson, Bonnie,; Dabhoiwala, Faramerz,; Franzén, Carin,; Heinonen, Meri,; Hollewand, Karen,; Kaartinen, Marjo,; Lancel, Juliette,; Leveen, Lois,; Lidman, Satu,; Liliequist, Jonas,; Linkinen, Tom,; McLelland, Kaye,; Parry-Jones, Thomas,; Smith, Kathleen,; Walker, Garthine,; Wiślicz, Tomasz,
• HerausgeberIn: Heinonen, Meri,; Kaartinen, Marjo,; Lidman, Satu,; Linkinen, Tom,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.) :; 1 color plate, 30 halftones

The way that we have perceived, described, and understood sexual desire has changed dramatically over time and across cultures. This collection brings together a group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore the history of sexual desires and the transformation of sexual ideas, a...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table Of Contents
• Editors' Foreword
• Framing Premodern Desires Between Sexuality, Sin, And Crime
• Part I Transforming Ideas And Practices
• The Naturalness Of Sex In Medieval Roman Law
• Desire After Foucault
• Incest Between In-Laws
• Dialectics Of Virginity
• The First Sexual Revolution
• Part II Constructing Passions
• Love And Desire In French Moralist Discourse
• Between Books And Brothels
• The Dream And The Sin
• The Lame Man Makes The Best Lecher
• Between Passion And Lust
• Jonas Liliequist subtitle/>What happens between the covers: Writing premodern desire for audiences beyond academia
• About The Authors
• Index