Desire and Discipline : Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.
Eisenbichler, Konrad.
Desire and Discipline : Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (344 pages)
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.
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.
9781442673854
Sex customs-Europe-History-Congresses.
Sex role-Europe-History-Congresses.
Electronic books.
HQ18.E8 D475 1996
Desire and Discipline : Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (344 pages)
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.
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.
9781442673854
Sex customs-Europe-History-Congresses.
Sex role-Europe-History-Congresses.
Electronic books.
HQ18.E8 D475 1996