Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bottoms up! The fine arts and flagellation
  • Robert Musil : what price homosexual sadism?
  • Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa : murder, madrigals and masochism
  • The sticky end of Frantisek Koczwara, composer of The Battle of Prague
  • Weighing the heart agaist the feather of truth
  • Can the leper change his spots? The iconography of leprosy
  • The iconography of Fanny Hill : how to illustrate a dirty book
  • Johnson and Boswell : "Vile melancholy" and "The hypochondriack"
  • Margery Kempe : hysteria and mysticism reconciled
  • All the colours of the Rimbaud
  • Reuben's mandrakes : inferitliy in the Bible
  • The plague at Granada, 1348-49 : Ibn al-Khatib and ideas of contagion
  • The trial of Spencer Cowper : expert witnesses to the rescue
  • Notes on placentophagy.