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

This collection of original essays looks at sexuality in the long stretch between the 12th and the early 17th centuries - a period that remains relatively unexplored, yet one that has deeply informed contemporary ideas about sex.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eisenbichler, Konrad
Otros Autores: Murray, Jacqueline
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Edición:2nd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • 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 Pierre 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.